Dead Grass Doubts

Skip Richets takes your questions all morning long!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 6 (00:44):
Starting well? Good morning gardeners. All is well in the
garden and we are having some decent weather here. I
am enjoying it, able to get outside and get some
work done. Yesterday, had a good time down at Arcy
Arcy at Moss Nursery. I'm thinking about RCW because I was.

(01:06):
I was looking at some of the plants they have
coming in anyway done at Moss Nursery. We had a
good time. Thanks for everybody that came out brought me
your baggies of weeds and plants and all that kind
of stuff. I think it was a I think it
was a lot of fun. So I wanted to let
you know that the next appearance is going to be
up at Nature's Way on this coming Saturday, that's October

(01:29):
the eleventh. Now this is for Nature's Way, their big
fallse Shindig. I'll tell you more about it. Is we
go through the show today, but for right now, just
mark your calendars for October the eleventh, and I'll be
there from twelve to two. Okay, let's just do it
that way. I'm tugging to yesterday. Yesterday to people, they

(01:52):
were asking about the nitro Fross Texas three step and
there seems to continue to be some confusion about you know,
which one do I put on first? Do I put
one on water? Do IN put one on watered in? No,
you don't have to do that. Each of these needs
a little water to move it in the soil, so
you don't have to water after ever one if you're

(02:12):
going to do them all on one day, which is
what I would recommend, and I would recommend doing it
sooner rather than later. We get one cold front through
here with some rain, and all of a sudden, close
season weeds are germinating and the brown patch circles are
going to start to appear. If that's been something that
has plagued your lawn in the past, you definitely want
to prevent it this year. Nitrofoss Fall Special, that's the fertilizer,

(02:37):
the winter riser, Nitrofoss barricade to stop weeds before they
even get started. And nitrofoss eagletur fund a side that's
parts of the three step right there. You're going to
find those at Bearings Hardware on West Timer. You can
find them in Chandy Gardens down in Richmond. Plans for
All Seasons on two forty nine also carries those nitrofoss products.

(02:57):
Let's just go to our early bird this morning. We're
gonna head to Montgomery and talk to Albert. Hey, Albert,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 7 (03:06):
Good morning, sird morning. Uh what I got is I
got about an eight foot not all oak tree.

Speaker 8 (03:12):
I've been babying.

Speaker 7 (03:13):
It's been doing real good. But a couple of days ago,
a deer, A deer, I guess someone with its handlers.
He rubbed a big two foot section of all my
bark off my tree. And uh, okay, I need Do
I need to do anything to that? Or is there
something I could do to help the tree? I really

(03:35):
want that tree to live.

Speaker 6 (03:38):
What would you say? Is the trunk diameter of that tree?
Oh about waist high across two inches across a couple
of inches and the two foot yeah, the two in
the two foot section he knocked out? Is it on
one side, or does it kind of go around the.

Speaker 9 (03:58):
Tree it's on one side.

Speaker 6 (04:03):
Okay, well that's a good thing. That tree is not
going to be happy about what happened, of course, but
those if you will keep it fertilized and watered go
through next year especially, it will start to call us
and close back that over. That is not very far
for callous to go. You know, it's only going to
have to go a couple of inches to close over

(04:24):
the two sides, and so, you know, roughly, and it
can do that pretty quick. If it's a young tree,
healthy tree, it has plenty of bark. It sounds like
left to supply the top that wasn't damaged on the
other side from where the deer damaged did. And well,
I think next thing I would do is so they

(04:44):
don't come back and do it again, get you some
kind of wire and wrap it around. I like to
use the little half inch square hardware it's called hardware cloth,
but it's wires like you put under a rabbit cage
for them to hop around on. It's very stiff wire.
You can make a cylinder and even if they rub
on that, they're not gonna they're not gonna be able
to get to the to the trunk itself. Uh, they

(05:07):
will reach up and you know there, I'm sure there's
branches they can reach up and nibble on. So there's that.
But anyway, just try to avoid future damage to it.
You don't need to put any kind of treatment on
that wounded area. Any loose bark strips that are hanging
on it, Go ahead and cut those off. Uh, they're

(05:27):
not going to come back to life and do anything
for you. But yeah, just just let let that tree
have some vigor and help it along, and I think
that'll give its best chance. Oh there's one more step.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
You know.

Speaker 6 (05:43):
You know, a friend of mine says, we don't we
don't have too many deer. We have too few freezers.
So I'm gonna let you think about that.

Speaker 10 (05:51):
Bit.

Speaker 6 (05:53):
Venison is awfully good anyway. I know I'm horrifying people
out there right now. You get the idea, all right, Nicholas,
I mean to Albert. Sorry, thank you very much, Okay,
thank you, all right, that's right, all right, Sorry about that, Nicholas.

(06:15):
My brain I gotta get it fired up here. I
think I'm gonna go get a cup of coffee, y'all.
Hang on, just a minute. Oh gosh, all right, welcome back.
The Guardline books to have you with us this morn
all righty hey, uh, Ace Hardware. Ace Hardware is loaded

(06:36):
up with your Halloween decorations. They are I mean all
that outdoor decorating you like to do, not just Halloween,
but Thanksgiving, this whole fall season. You know, the kinds
of things we put out. They are also ready to
go with everything else you need inside the house from
you know, replacing those filters that we put up in
our AC system. I forget too, It's supposed to be

(06:57):
every month. So I don't know how we settled a
little alarm or something, but ACE has got you covered.
Now for home safety, how are your fire spire alarm systems?
I checked mine periodically when I think too. We need
to put on our calendars if you need a new one,
if you need to add some to your house, ACE

(07:19):
has got you covered. If you need a fire extinguisher,
what happens if suddenly a fire breaks out, you know,
say a kitchen fire or something like that going on,
what are you gonna do? You need to have a
fire extinguisher nearby that everybody knows where it is. And
ACE has you covered for that too. Now we're talking
about fertilizing for fall and controlling weeds and controlling diseases.
ACE has got all those products that we keep talking about.

(07:41):
And you have an ACE Hardware store near you. You
can go to ACE Hardware Texas dot com. Ace Hardware
Texas dot com find your local ACE Hardware store. You're
going to see stores like All Spas, ACE and Kirkandall
in the Woodlands, All Seasons ACE up in Willis Chambers,
ACE on Broadway Street, and in Galveston and Bay City
on Seventh Street as well. We've going to go now

(08:04):
out to Cove and talk to Dnis this morning. Hey Dennis,
welcome to Guardenline.

Speaker 4 (08:09):
Thank you. Skip. Have a question. It's a specific tree,
but it's probably a general question because it's happened to
me before. This is something we put in the ground
a couple of years ago. We have the standard clay
soil out here. My experiences, other than oak trees, everything
we planted takes maybe five years before it. It seems

(08:33):
like it really gets roots down into the clay and
will really grow. Stuff, will just grow a few inches
a foot a year, and then one summer it suddenly
takes off. So we have something that's been it's like that,
it's been in the ground a couple of years, probably
has grown a couple of feet, usually starts leaving it
losing its leaves this time of year. So it wasn't, sir,

(08:55):
it's been doing that. But within the last two weeks.
I just yesterday a little growth is shot up from
the ground. It's about a foot high and it's got nice, shiny,
pretty green leaves on. It looks quite better than the
original tree. But I'm thinking I probably need to cut
that off.

Speaker 11 (09:15):
That.

Speaker 4 (09:16):
That's really not helpful, is that?

Speaker 10 (09:20):
Yeah? Would you agree with that?

Speaker 6 (09:21):
To remove that one? Yeah, it'll just become a competitor
with your main trunk. So goad and get that off.
In a clay soil, there's some types of trees that
do better than others. That's step one in terms of
getting a tree to be happy there. And so as
you choose your trees that you can give us a
call sometime if you want, and if you're ever going

(09:42):
to plan another one. Talk about some various options that
you have when you amend the soil. You don't want
to dig a hole and amend the soil when you plant,
you want to amend a large area around and let's
say you you know, put a couple inches of compost
down and a ten foot wide area and you just
mix it all in, get it as best you can,

(10:03):
and then dig the hole and plant the tree in it.
That is helpful. Some trees some areas tend to be
low where water stands, and that can be a problem
in a heavy clay soil. And then the final thing
actually should be the first thing is when you pull
that tree out of the pot, cutting those circling roots.
A tree that's all pot bound, you know, with the

(10:24):
roots going around in circles around the pot, it just
doesn't establish very fast at all, and it's a struggle
for it. But if you cut the roots, believe it
or not, within two weeks, you got fresh roots underground
that are heading out from where you made those cuts.
As long as it's you know, warm weather, and that
is also something that I would recommend for it. And
of course, you know, fertilizer is important and water is important.

(10:47):
But I think the root bound is probably a possible
cause of some of the experiences you've had based on
what I'm hearing.

Speaker 4 (10:55):
No, I would agree with that, but that's not a tip.
I guess I heard you mentioned in that I think
yesterday or it might have been last week, I for
but just recently I heard that and I thought, well,
that's that's something I know we haven't regularly done. But
we usually you know, dig in amend a much larger
area than the whatever sized rootball it's in. But you know,

(11:18):
I don't know that that and we've usually tried to
spread the roots out, but that notion of cutting them
is something we haven't done in the past. So that's
something we'll know going forward. Yeah, all right, thank you
very much.

Speaker 6 (11:32):
You asked those cut ins. You bet you take care
and thank you for the call. Appreciate that. We're going
to go to myrland now and talk to Steve. Hey, Steve,
welcome regard line.

Speaker 8 (11:42):
Thanks very much.

Speaker 10 (11:43):
Good in the morning. Skip.

Speaker 8 (11:45):
So I had some things going on, wasn't paying attention
to my lawn and the sod web worms got to it.
H I prayed for those anything in particular to do
to kind of help it recover. They got probably a
fourth to a third of it.

Speaker 6 (12:01):
Well, putting on your fall fertilizer would be the next thing.
That way, it has the best chance of building up
whatever energy it can going into fall. It's going to
have to put out new leaves to capture sunlight, to
make carbohydrates, to do all the things we want that
lawn to do. And so hopefully we'll get some mild
days here for a long enough time where it can

(12:23):
do a little bit of that from what the webworms
took away. But just follow the schedule that I've got
online and do your fall fertilization. Would I would have
you had problems with brown patch in the past, the
big circles, I don't think, so Okay, yeah, I don't
think I have. Well, yeah, what I was going to

(12:46):
say is, if you know that that's likely on your lawn,
I would do the preventative on it, because you know
it lost its foliage to webworms and then it puts
out new foliage and here comes the brown circles taking
that out, and we don't need that additional stress on there.
So that you may have some weeds sprouting that's going

(13:08):
to come on now because sunlight is getting to the
soil better than it could when the grass had its
grass blades on it, and so that would be you know,
a barricade application now to shut those down before they
get get in there, and now you're dealing with weeds
that are already growing. It's easier to.

Speaker 8 (13:27):
Prevent I did hear you're talking about the knights A
pros texts three steps. That sounds like what we're talking about.

Speaker 6 (13:32):
Yeah, three step. It basically is, yeah, that's a that's
a good example of a fall. Fertilizer and the yeah,
all three. But again, the generally with the brown patch,
if you haven't had problems with it in the past,
I don't always treat for it. But if you have problems,
you're going to have them again. And so that's that

(13:53):
is definitely a case where preventing them is better, especially
in a lot that's stressed like yours.

Speaker 8 (13:59):
All right, great, well, thank you so much. Okay, goodbye,
all right.

Speaker 6 (14:03):
I appreciate your cal You take care.

Speaker 12 (14:06):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (14:07):
Had a question yesterday before someone asked me about as
might say, when when do you put on a man
You know, you got this schedule, Uh, and it's like
put on fertilizer at these times, but when do you
put on asmite? Well, if you look at the schedule again,
take take another look at it right under or in
between the the organic and the synthetic fertilizer applications is

(14:28):
a little bar that says, put a trace mineral supplement
on there, and it's I've got it during you know,
most of the season on there. That's just because the
grass is growing and stuff. You can put as mite
on anytime you want. If you put on January, it's fine,
it's going to get on in the soil and you
know it'll it'll be there when the plant roots need it.
And that's why we put it down. Plants have to

(14:48):
have trace minerals too, and if you have a soil test,
that's the best thing you can do because then you
know exactly what it is that your lawn needs specifically.
But in the absence of that, an azimide application at
the rate that they recommend on the label will help
you ensure that you have the micros in the bank
account for when your plants need them, and they need

(15:10):
them every day. Micros are required for growth, and they
not not much required, but they are required for growth.
You can get asimide at almost any place you go, feedstores,
hardware stores, ace hardware stores, the independent garden centers that
we have here around the area. It's easy to find.
Just don't mix it with fertilizer in the spreader because

(15:34):
it's a smaller particle than most fertilizers. And so you
want to make your application of the standards that are
on my fertilizing schedule, the nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium fertilizers, and
then do the azimide itself in a separate application. Let's
go to sugar Land. I'm going to talk to Larry
this morning. Hey, Larry, welcome to guard Morning.

Speaker 10 (15:57):
Good, good morning, thank you. Warning. Uh, couple of quick questions.
One is, yesterday I found on the farling on the
house a little light brown, fuzzy looking caterpillar about three
eighths maybe a half inch long. Uh. Google tells me

(16:18):
that that may be a bus caterpillar. And I'm worried. Yeah, yeah, okay, yep, yeah,
ye okay. And so I'm it's under Yeah, it's under

(16:39):
a oak tree, and I am worried. Do I need
to is there probably more than one? Uh? And do
I need to do something for the tree?

Speaker 6 (16:53):
You they're not going to hurt the tree, the only thing, okay,
but the whole tree.

Speaker 13 (17:00):
Just mhm okay, okay, all right, So just try to
avoid them. Well, I see them, okay, yeah, and just
be aware.

Speaker 6 (17:11):
You know where people encounter those things is you're walking
underneath the tree and they're dropping. They'll drop out of
the tree because they're they're going for a place to
go hibernate and get ready to do the next stage
of the of the insects life cycle, and they'll drop out.
And sometimes they'll drop down the back, you know, behind
your neck, between your neck and your shirt. And when

(17:31):
they get in there, then those little spiny hairs that
they have on them, they hurt like fire. They're called asks. Yes,
by the way, asp asp asp, and yeah, but we
don't need to treat for them. Just don't touch them.
If you got any kids, your grandkids, to tell them
not to touch them, or if they do, it'll be

(17:53):
a very vivid learning experience, which we'd like to.

Speaker 10 (17:56):
Avoid exactly exactly. Second thing, because of on weeds in
the grass. I went to Southwest Fertilizer and they recommended
weed pre zone. But can you start putting on weed
killer at this point?

Speaker 6 (18:20):
You put on the pre emergent weed killer now this October,
I would go ahead and get it done now. Okay,
so are you talking about killing existing weeds exactly. Yeah, No,
that's not something you're needing to do right now. The
weeds that are there are already gone, going to seed,

(18:41):
and they're you're not going to gain anything from them.
If you stay with the pre emergent approach, you hopefully
will avoid those. And then as we get in the
next as you're coming out of winter, before those any
weeds that you see really take off growing, that would
be a time if you're going to use a post
emergent to apply it to them.

Speaker 10 (19:01):
Okay, so after the first of the year.

Speaker 6 (19:08):
Yes, once the winter weeds. Hopefully you got those with
your pre emergent and you're not going to have winter
weeds showing up in the spring. That's when we really
notice them. But if you miss some, then do it
before they start blooming and setting seed, which would mean
doing it probably yeah, in February. It depends on the weed,

(19:31):
but shut them down before they become reproductive blooming and
setting seed.

Speaker 10 (19:38):
Great, great, all right, welcome to you. We're glad to
have you in the area.

Speaker 6 (19:44):
Thank you. I appreciate that you take care. We are
in that season where there's a lot going on in
the lawn. It's a busy time, and this is our
opportunity to set that line up for success. And I
say this all the time, but I know there are
people that don't listen all the time.

Speaker 10 (20:05):
I know.

Speaker 6 (20:05):
I'm shocked. It hurts my feelings. Ne Sariously, there are
people that don't listen all the time. And so I
repeat things because it's important to know. The fall fertilization
puts the nutrients into the grass, especially potassium, but not
just potassium. Potassium needs nitrogen with it, but not a
lot of nitrogen. Does that make sense. That's why we

(20:26):
call these things fall fertilizers or winter risers, or whatever
name you want to put on it. When it goes
into the plant, the plant captures the sunlight and builds
the heartiness that we need, and potassium is important for that.
But okay, ooh, I'm passing up on my break. Excuse me.
I'll finish that description just a moment. Well, well, welcome,

(20:52):
Good to have you back with us here on garden Line.
Appreciate that it's always good to visit with folks that
have gardening questions. I had a good time. I'm out
at mash yesterday and we're looking forward next Saturday to
being out at Nature's Way Resources for the Big Shindick.
I'll be there from twelve to two and they have
got like forty vendors coming in. They've got all kinds

(21:12):
of fun stuff for kids and adults. And while you're there,
check out their nursery. It is awesome, really nice nursery
of plants. They keep it stocked up and they got
to just I'll tell you more about some of the
sales I have in a bit later today, but I
just know that there's some good deals out there you
need to check out, and I hope you'll come out.

(21:33):
Love to see you. That's next Saturday, the eleventh at
Nature's Way Resources. If you want to see ideas for landscaping,
you know I always drive around town and take the
I like to take the side roads rather than just
zooming down this highway. Just maybe wander through a neighborhood
here and there because I see so many landscapes and

(21:54):
get some really good ideas. Some people have just done
outstanding jobs.

Speaker 10 (21:58):
Well.

Speaker 6 (21:58):
Another way you can go about that is go to
Pierscapes and go to their website and look at what
they can do. And I'll tell you what's what's gonna happen.
You're gonna look at it and you're gonna say, Okay,
that is gorgeous. I want that at my house. But
I don't. I'm not set up to do that kind
of work at the house. Pierscapes is they have designers
that are professional. You know, they're different than me. I'm

(22:19):
a plant collector. My yard can look like a bomb
went off in a garden center and everything rooted where
it landed. That's the design. Actually it's not that bad,
but you get the idea. Peerscapes knows how to do it.
They do it right. They if you want the whole
landscape done, they can do that. If you just want
to redo a section, red design, rework a section, all

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the way down to hardescapes, landscape lighting, fixing areas that
don't train well, they do the whole nine yards. You
just need to give them a call at two eight
one three seven fifty sixty two eight one three seven
oh fifty sixty. But go to that website Piercescapes dot
com and you'll see the kind of work that they do.

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Let's see, We're going to head out now to Lakeside
of States and talk to Marine. Hello Marene, welcome to
garden Line.

Speaker 14 (23:08):
Thank you.

Speaker 15 (23:09):
I followed your advice.

Speaker 16 (23:11):
I put in my SOD on Monday, and I believe
I followed all the steps. I made sure I turned
the soil over and leveled it out as per the
area that it was and put it down. It looks
like it's fine. So I'm just verifying my watering schedule.

(23:32):
Since I did this last Sunday and finished Monday, what
type of watering? I got the impression that I might
have planned to water too much, So now I'm just
cutting back the last few days Thursday, Friday and today yesterday.
Just one watering.

Speaker 6 (23:52):
Okay, that's probably sufficient. You know, I have a mantre
that I give during the growing season when it's hot
in the summer and it's water twice the first week,
twice a day the first week, once a day the
second week, and then start backing off. And that's that's
easy to remember. But the truth is, you know, if
you get rain, that's less water and you have to do.

(24:13):
If you have a very cloudy day, then it's not
going to dry out as fast. And as we get
a little cooler weather, cooler temperatures, it doesn't dry it
as fast. So I guess the real answer to how
often do you water is water enough to keep that
little thinler or clay that came with the grass you
laid down to keep it moist, and that that's the goal.
So whatever that's going to take, I would think right

(24:36):
now you probably are okay for once a day, but
just watch it. The grass will tell you. You'll be
able to look at it and go, yeah, that's that's
not perky. It's it's kind of turning a little bit
of a gray green color, or the leaves are rolling
up if it's Saint Augustine a little bit, and yeah,
so just just give it what it needs. But the
main thing is it's this is a critical time where

(24:57):
it gets its reots done and you set it up
for success.

Speaker 16 (25:00):
And then the last question would be do I wait
until next spring to feed it?

Speaker 17 (25:06):
Because I did put.

Speaker 16 (25:07):
Down kelp first, and then I put down the sod
and I had a big heavy tamper to make sure
I was yes, getting enough pressure down. So I feel
that I'm okay with the water. But then my follow
up question is when do I feed it?

Speaker 6 (25:29):
Okay, so generally yeah, yeah, well yeah, let me just
say it this way. Generally, when that side comes in,
it's fine for a month. You don't have to fertilize
it for a few weeks. It's okay, we needed to
get roots to take that nutrient up right, But if
you can wait until maybe three weeks from now, I

(25:54):
would do the fall fertilization on it at that time.
That's that's speeding it up a little bit. But I think,
I think that it would be helpful because that grass
is going to be going into the winter season. So
I would do a light application of what we say
is our fall fertilizer schedule for that grass. I'd wait

(26:14):
about three weeks. That way, it'll definitely have some rooting
in that's going on pretty good before you fertilize.

Speaker 17 (26:21):
Sounds good.

Speaker 10 (26:22):
I like that.

Speaker 15 (26:24):
Okay, thank you so much.

Speaker 8 (26:25):
All hang up and.

Speaker 10 (26:26):
Listen here, bye bye.

Speaker 17 (26:28):
Take it, yes, all right, bye bye.

Speaker 6 (26:30):
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(26:53):
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A lot of these places do carry heirloom soils. There's

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Round stuff before green stuff is not what we say,
that's right. Somebody at it. Moss Nursery yesterday when we
were there, asked me about Nelson's carbo load. You know,
is it okay to put that on now? Well, yes,

(28:20):
it's it's a fall fertilization. Get my schedule out and
look at it. Gardening with Skip dot com. Look at
my schedule, it's on there. This is the time to
do it now. If you do carbo load, you don't
need to also do a pre emergent herbicide because carboload
has the pre emergent in it also. And throughout the year,

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timing fertilizing and herbiciding is they don't match well, but
now they do. October is the one time, you know,
where we need to be preventing weeds and we need
to be putting our fall fertilization on carbload's got nice
It's got a little bit of nitrogen, a nice load
of that potassium, which is perfect for getting your lawn

(29:07):
ready for the winter. It's a purple bag, easy to
see carbo load from the folks at Nelson. Let's take
a little break and I'll be back with our last
segment of this hour. Welcome back to guard Line. I'm
your host's Skip Richter. We're here to help make gardening
more beautiful, bountiful, and fun. That's another way to put it,
and it ought to be all three of the above.

(29:28):
I hope you have a fall garden, if I hope
you're planning one or planted one. It is really really rewarding.
And the fall season is the best vegetable gardening season
of the year in my opinion. It's a cooler We
can grow a lot of different things through the fall,
and some of the healthiest, healthiest vegetables you can grow

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are cool season plants, some of those bluely vegetables, cabbage, cauliflower,
co robbie, broccoli, kale, collards, all of those types of things.
That's another one, and they're not hard to grow either.
And then we got the leafy greens like lettuce and spinach.
Those are good. I like rugula or a roquette rock

(30:11):
cat rocket. It's sometimes called arugula. If you pick it
when it's young, it has a nice kind of fresh,
nutty taste. I would say as it gets older, and
you know, as it warms up in things, it starts
to get a little pungent. But a lot of people
like that too. But why not try some different greens
this year. There is a green called plantain. It's a

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little seedy plant and they come up and it's edible.
You can eat the leaves and greens. There's one called
corn salad, and why I have no idea because it
doesn't look like corn. It is a little low growing
plant for the cool season that people plant and put
in their salads. You can use different colors of vegetables.
There's different colors of lettuce. There's now different colors of spinach.

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One called red kitten that has red veins and it
makes a pretty little leaf. And as you bring those
other the colors in, then now your salad is just pretty.
So you don't have to slather a salad with dressing
to make it edible. You can plant some really tasty
things and I'm just telling you a few here. There's
a lot lot more. But why not get you some

(31:17):
seeds and try out some of these new things this year.
You could do that in a container, And I've known
people that will take a container and a wider container,
generally a wider top. It doesn't have to be so deep,
but especially wide, and they'll just scatter all these seeds
of like all these different lettuces, and then as they

(31:39):
grow up they mow them with their scissors and bring
them in for like baby salad, baby spinach leaves, and
so on. And you can do that is that if
you don't cut the base of the plant off, they'll
come again. It's called cut and come again. You harvest
it off and bring it in, and if you got
two or three of those containers, you've always got fresh

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coming on. So just something to think about. Buchanan's Native
Plants in the Heights. First of all, Buchanans is going
to have all kinds of vegetables and seeds there as well.
They are on Eleventh Street, and their name says Native Plants,
And it is true that they have the best selection
of natives anywhere in this area. A huge selection of

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natives Now I want you, though, to realize that natives,
while they're the best provider natives, they have way more
types of plants than just natives. So I mean, if
you want a fruit tree, they've got it. If you're
looking for something that's not native, but it's perfect for
the region, the location, rather that you're wanting to put
it in the landscape, they've got it. Buchanan's Plants carries

(32:45):
a full line of all the micro life products. They
carry nitroposs, they carry nelson, they carry Nature's way resources,
they carry airloom soils. I mean, you hear me talk
about all these because Buchanan knows that it's down in
the soil that everything happens. That is where the foundation
for success happens. And they have their own life below.
It's an all purpose soil blend and compost with expanded

(33:08):
shale life below the life in the soil. And when
you're there, check out the herbs, check out the vegetables.
Check out their wonderful houseplant collection. If you're into succulents,
they got you covered. Any kind of plant you're looking for,
from tropicals to roses to you name it. Buchanans Native
Plants fun place to shop cool in the heights on

(33:28):
the on eleventh Street, and you need to check them
out today. They got that nice new checkout area that
they built and boy, is that ever? Is that ever
a break from the sun And it's just a it's
just a much better checking out experience. Check out their
website and sign up for their newsletter Buchanansplants dot com.

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Buchanansplants dot com. Their newsletter is outstanding. Their website is outstanding.
There's videos of how you do this or how you
do that. There's features of native plants that they're always
featuring a new native plant as they go through time,
and you know it, you'll learn about plants you didn't
even know existed and probably want one for your yard.

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All right, there you go. Well, I was talking about
fruit trees and success with fruit trees the other day.
I wanted to just say, don't forget when you're buying
your fruit trees, make sure you buy them from our
local independent garden centers because they carry the stuff that
grows here and they can talk to you about that.
They can say, well, are you done in Galveston, are

(34:34):
you up in Tombol or you know where are you
and get you the right fruit trees that do well
for you. Some require cross pollination. Ask that question if
you don't know, or go online and find out, because
cross pollination is important. And yesterday I was talking a
little bit about cross pollination and how some types of

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things don't need pollinator a second pollinator. Peaches don't, and
some types of things apples do. And then there's some
that there are certain varieties that do or don't. The
methylely plum, for example, will pollinate itself, but not all
plums will pollinate themselves. But then there's another factor on
pollination with blueberries. And I hope you're growing blueberries because

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that is a very healthy it's easy to grow. We're
fortunate to be over in this part of the state
where blueberries are a little happier than they are in
other parts. But blueberries, if you don't have a pollinator,
you're gonna get some berry set on most blueberries. But
when you have a pollinator, you get better set. But

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you also get bigger berries. Now, why would a pollinator
make bigger berries? Here's why this is a fun fact. Okay,
it makes bigger berries because each seed in a blueberry
there can be sixty four seeds in a blueberry. Sixty
four seeds in a blueberry, there can be and each
one that gets pollinated, the seeds release hormones that make

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the fruit larger and grow. That's why if you have
an apple that's lopsided and you cut through it, the
seed on that sunken inside is dead. It's not growing.
That's why it didn't develop on that side. So the
better your blueberry pollination, the better and larger your blueberries.
You're going to be just a fun fact. But ask
your local independent garden center. You go to a big

(36:18):
box store and ask that question, and they're going to
look at you like a caf at a new Gate.
I mean, it's like, what support our local nurseries. They
know what they're talking about. They carry the stuff you need,
and they have the expertise to help you have success.
By the way, with blueberries, we have the rabbit eyes
that grow over here. It's a larger bush. The berries

(36:38):
start off kind of a pinkish color. That's why it's
called rabbit eye, like an albino rabbit. And then we
have the Southern high bush. Southern high bush makes a
larger berry. It doesn't go through that pink stage as much.
Although now with breeding, gosh, they've got all kinds of
crazy stuff going on. Lots of good, good blueberries. You
want high quality water for your blue berries. So depending

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on where you're listening, people up in college station, don't
put that. Don't put that high sodium water on a blueberry.
People that I have a quality water, go for it.
If you've got a rain water system there, you go perfect.
Make them very very happy. And yes, you can grow
them in very large containers too. You get something the
size of a half whiskey barrel and you can make

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a blueberry very happy in that. If it's a southern
high busch, they do well on that's got to get
them a right soil. All right, Well, that's just some
fun facts for you. We'll be back. We're going to
take a top of the hour break here and we'll
be back with your questions. If you'd like to be
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garden Line. What kind of questions do you have if
you'd like to give me a call? Seven one three
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going to go straight out to the phones here to
Camp Logan and talk to Ron. Hello, Ron, welcome to
garden Line.

Speaker 12 (39:59):
Hey, Hey, thank you stiff, thank you for taking my call.
Say listen, I've got to improve my lemon tree. It's
about i'd say eight feet tall and about eight feet
in diameter, doing really well and loaded with limits. And
I've noticed that the lemon. All the lemons are basically
in the bottom half of the truth. But anyway, my

(40:20):
question is, after a horryst and then we get into the.

Speaker 8 (40:23):
Winter, I want to prune the top.

Speaker 12 (40:26):
That will help me make it easier to cover. We
get a freezer whatever, and I'm wondering how much can
I cut off that top and will that ever be
fruit bearing or is.

Speaker 10 (40:38):
It a good thing to do that?

Speaker 6 (40:42):
Well, you can do that. Yes, it will be fruit bearing.
It just depends on where the lemons at. But one
thing too, and this is kind of a visual run,
but when you have a lemon on one of those
lanky my lemon branches, it's going to pull the branches down,
so all the fruits can appear to be lower in
the tree than it really originated to some degree. Do

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you see what I'm saying.

Speaker 12 (41:08):
Yeah, But what I've seen a lot of the limbs
up top are kind of going vertically straight up, and
they don't have any fruit on them at all.

Speaker 6 (41:18):
Right, But they will, they'll settle down and they'll come
down lower once you know, they they bloom and put
start setting they will set fruit up there later, not now,
next year, they will, So I would be sparing in
the pruning. And here the main reason I'd be sparing
with the pruning is pruning is an invigorating process. Now

(41:41):
to a citrus tree in the winter time, it's not
wanting to grow, but just be a little careful with
it because you don't want to have it stimulate new growth,
because that's even more cold tender than the tree itself is.

Speaker 10 (41:54):
Okay, Yeah, okay, good deal. Hey can I ask you
another real quick question?

Speaker 11 (42:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (42:01):
Sure.

Speaker 12 (42:02):
I had a taste of take off patch. It got
part of my yard, so I'm gonna have to do
the keel, till, fill and sod and in inn yard
where it died, I've got some sedge grass, I've got
some dollar weed. When I go to kill it, I
just use will tricle peer kill the dollar weed and

(42:22):
sedge grass or do I have to go with like
the sedgehammer or sage gender and anything special.

Speaker 6 (42:29):
I would not use tricle peer on it. Dollar weed
is not that difficult to control. We have a number
of different broadly herbicides that are out there on the
market that we'll control dollar weed as far as the
sedge can. You if you look at the sedges, I
don't know if you can remember or a picture of
this from most people don't look this carefully at a sedge.

(42:50):
But on the top, are there a little cluster, a
little sort of somewhat spiky little balls the size of
lesser than size of an English Okay, want to make
sure which one we have? Yeah? So so, yeah, I
get you a good a good sedge control product. I
probably I would go where are you located, camp Logan? Okay,

(43:16):
I would probably, Yeah, I got it's not too far
to get over. Well, I was going to send you
over there because they have a variety of sedge products,
and if you tell them that you have not nut sedge,
but a different sedge, they can help you with that.
There's also one called kai Linga that look it's like

(43:37):
a sedge, but it doesn't respond to all of the
herbicides that sedge responds to. So take them a sample
of your your sedge in there so they can especially
that little bloom thing on top and let them take
a look at it, and then after knowing which one
it is, they they can put the right product in
your hand.

Speaker 12 (43:56):
Okay, we'll do thanks a lot, Skip, I appreciate it.

Speaker 6 (44:02):
All right, sounds good, Thanks for the call. Yeah, sedges
have edges. What does that mean? Well, you grab a
normal plant stem and it's kind of round ish, right,
You grab a sedge and it's triangular. So if you
roll like you're rolling a plant stem in your fingers

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like rolling a you know, just some a straw, it's
very it's somewhat smooth and round. When you get to
a sedge, it's like clunk, clunk, clunk as you're rolling
it through your fingers between your finger and your thumb,
is what I'm saying. And so that that three sided,
that's a sedge. And if it's four sided, then it's
a member of the mint family. And Salvias are members

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of the mint family. And there's many other plants we
use in our landscape that are members of the mint family.
But mint family plants have four sides square stems. And
the best way to tell is just get it in
your finger and kind of feel it and you can
feel up those corners. But sedges, especially with three corners,
that really shows up all right, probably more than you

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want to know. But fun fact, wild Birds Unlimited is
doing their annual feeder swamp and you need to take
part in this here's how it works. You take your
old feeder in. Take any old feeder in. I mean
it could be falling apart, doesn't matter. Just bring them
an old feeder and they will give you a significant

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discount on a brand new feeder from any of the
six locally owned wild Birds Unlimited stores. Now, this deal
is only going to last until October twelfth, so you
don't want to delay on this. Sometime between now and
October twelfth, bring those in and it's cool. You have
to see the pile of old feeders they get at
these stores, and people will bring them all kinds of stuff.

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But it's a great opportunity to get you a bird
feeder from your local wild Birds Unlimited store. And they've
got all kinds of things that you're going to want
for the winter season. Feeders that the standard, you know,
hopper type feeder where you put the feed on top,
a bird seed on top, and it comes out on
little tray underneath. They've got the squirrel eliminator feeders, my

(46:10):
favorite one. They've got just a little tray feeders. It's
just a little tray that hangs in out there.

Speaker 10 (46:16):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (46:17):
And then they have the suet feeders that those where
you put the little cakes of a suet in for
the birds and certain birds in the winter time. So anyway,
stop by your local Wildbirds Unlimited store in Kingwood on
Kingwood Drive, in Paarland on Broadway East Broadway, in Houston
on bel Air in Houston on Memorial in Cypress on

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Barker Cypress, and in clear Lake on El Dorado Boulevard.
So check out. These guys have the best bird seed
in the world to seed that birds eat. See the
birds eat that. I really mean a lot of cheap
bird seed. I call them the red bebies. You know,
it's a little milo down in there, and birds don't
care for that. You know, if they're starving, I guess

(47:00):
they'll eat one, but they don't like that. And so
get them a wild Bird's Unlimited blend and they'll be
very happy, and so will you. Let's take a little break.
We'll be right back with your calls. All right, we're back.
Welcome back to guard Line folks. Good to have you
with us on this Sunday morning. Hope you're having a

(47:21):
good one so far. We are here to help you
have success and to answer the gardening questions and steer
you in the right direction. And I would ask one
thing of folks that listen to guard line number one,
if you've never called, give us a call some time.
We like to visit with folks that have been kind
of hiding and lurking in the shadows, So give us

(47:43):
a call. The other thing is, if you're about to
do something to your landscape, maybe put in fruit trees,
maybe redo the yard. Maybe I don't know you name it,
give me a call first and let's talk about it.
Because a lot of things can be done to set
you up for six Before you plant, and after you plant,

(48:04):
you're kinda you're kind of set up with however you're
set up. I often have made the statement that by
the time you get up and walk away from planting something,
you are seventy probably more like eighty percent. I was
gonna say seventy five, but I was a eighty percent
of your way to success or failure. Now how could
I say that? Well, it is important how you water

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and how you fertilize, and things that are in your
control a past or, disease control or whatnot. But when
you put a plant in the ground, you have already
decided where it's going to go. It's going to be
sunny or shady there, and the plant's going to have
an opinion about that. I don't care if the plant
is a lettuce seed or a rose bush, it's going
to have an opinion about that. Secondly, you have also

(48:50):
in the location too, is how well does the soil
drain in that area? You have either prepared the soil
or not prepared the soil. And for some things like blueberries,
oh my gosh, that you absolutely need to prepare the soil.
Azaleas also you want to give them the best soil
you can unless you just want to watch a plant struggle,

(49:11):
which of course you don't.

Speaker 12 (49:13):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (49:13):
You have prepared the soil or not. That means what's
the pH of the soil, What is the nutrient content
of the soil? Does the soil drain well? Does it
have good organic matter in it when you get up
to walk away, that's already been set by you or
not done by you.

Speaker 12 (49:28):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (49:28):
And another thing is you've chosen a plant that is
either adapted to our area or not. As I was
saying earlier with fruit trees, you've planted one and it
needed a pollinator, or you planted too when it needed
a pollinator, so it think about the idea. When you
get up from planning a seed or a plant in
the transplant in the ground, you're a percent of your way,

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I would say to success or failure. So call me
before that and let's make sure we help you have
success and the process. There are a lot of things
in our control, and when you take care of things
and get them all right at the beginning, you get
to sit and enjoy that. That's really important. There's more

(50:12):
to it than just that, but that is just something
I would ask people. Listen to the garden line, give
me a call, let me help you avoid the problem
rather than try to figure out how to fix it.
All right. Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens out in Katie.
I love that place. It is a destination nursery and
for all of you on the west side of Houston,

(50:32):
this is kind of like your local destination garden center.
They always stay stocked up on the best plants. They
are very, very knowledgeable. They have been doing this a
long time. They know what they're talking about. If you're
looking to put in a new communia, for example, gosh,
those are beautiful blooms in the cool season. They've got
you set up. They got a good stock of those

(50:54):
vegetables and flowers. When it comes to nutrients, they carry
the fertilizers hear me talk about on Gardenlink, like folks
from Nelson fertilizers from Nightfos fertilizers or like asamite for
example there as well. And if you want to have
a beautiful landscape at various times of the year, they
can guide you on the kind of plants you want.

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Like right now, boy, it would have been good this
year to plant a Greggs. Gosh, I just went blank
Gregg's missed flower. Thank you there. I got my head
finally on because the butterflies just go nuts over that
plant when it blooms in the late summer and fall.
That's kind of thing I'm talking about. Nelson Nursery and

(51:37):
Water Gardens. They're professionals. You know how to do this,
and boy, when it comes to water and watergardens, there's
no place else that has a selection, the supply and
the knowledge that you'll find there at Nelson Nurseringwatergardens. Nelson
Watergardens dot Com on Katiefort Ben Road just north of
the Katie Freeway. Let's go out now to Pennington and
we're gonna talk to Lloyd. Hello, Lloyd, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 10 (52:01):
Good morning, how you skip, I do good?

Speaker 6 (52:05):
Thank you?

Speaker 10 (52:06):
Hey, you know An you.

Speaker 18 (52:10):
Remember me calling you talking to you about planning.

Speaker 6 (52:17):
Uh probably, yeah, vaguely, but go ahead.

Speaker 8 (52:20):
All right.

Speaker 7 (52:21):
You know I planned them about a month and a
half ago, and we talked about it being a little
too late.

Speaker 18 (52:26):
I just wanted to tell you that I'm eating squashed.

Speaker 4 (52:30):
They are and you must have a.

Speaker 6 (52:35):
Sorry, I was saying, you must. You must have a
special talent. That's good.

Speaker 10 (52:42):
Well, I've got plenty, and I've planned a variety called Supersonic.

Speaker 18 (52:46):
I've never heard of him, but before they called.

Speaker 10 (52:49):
Him super Sonic, and that's some of them. It's a
yellustrating that's some of the best parts I've ever eaten
my life.

Speaker 6 (52:58):
We're good. Try that.

Speaker 12 (53:02):
I hate you, Howard with ten and and uh there blue.

Speaker 15 (53:10):
And good.

Speaker 6 (53:11):
I'm glad to hear that. Hey, Uh, did you have
a question connected with that?

Speaker 10 (53:19):
I didn't want to give you.

Speaker 6 (53:20):
Another Okay, oh okay, Well, thank you. I appreciate that.
Good good luck, enjoy that. Enjoy that for me sounds good.
Let's go out to Willison Doctor Charles. Hey, Charles, Welcome
to garden Line.

Speaker 10 (53:35):
Good morning.

Speaker 12 (53:36):
I'm looking for a post emergant broadcast herbicide.

Speaker 10 (53:42):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (53:42):
They won't harm trees, okay. Uh, you want to use
a spray herbicide.

Speaker 12 (53:51):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (53:51):
And it depends on what you're going after, like granials. Yes,
m there is a weed beater that is it's called
we beat or complete. It is a granule that comes
in bags that works pretty good. Anytime you're using granules

(54:11):
to kill existing weeds, you have to wet the weed
leaves first and then immediately put it out because the
wet helps those granules not just bounce off the leaf
but actually stick to the leaf so they can start
to put their their herbicide ingredient into that leaf to
have a better job of killing those those weeds. So

(54:34):
don't forget the water first. But we Beater Complete is
one of several that is out there that is, you know,
just a herbicide that is broadcast.

Speaker 10 (54:45):
In a warm harm tree. You know a way wo
harm tree anything?

Speaker 6 (54:51):
No it if you do it correctly, you're not going
to hurt your tree if you if you overapply it,
or if you you play it right before a good
gully washer, rain or things. Then there are products that
can harm trees. There are I'm not going to go
through the list of them, but there are some products
I don't talk about on guarden line because the potential

(55:12):
to harm trees is greater with those and you're not
they're not the ones I'm talking about on guarden line, Okay,
but the we'd be to complete, properly apply. And you know,
if we're going to get three inches of rain, don't
put it out before we do that. Just put it
out first, wet the leaves, and then put it out,
uh to the wet leaves, and after a few days
you can give it about a half inch of water

(55:33):
to move some down in the soil as well. But
it's gonna have done its work in the in the
first day or two. All right, sir, Okay, great, Thank
you you bet Charles. You take care appreciate the call.
Uh see, aemultch down south of Houston is your one
stop shop to make your soil the best that it

(55:54):
can be, absolutely the best that it can be. You know,
it's all about the soil. Soil is the fact we
fix the soil before we plant the plants. That's what
brown stuff before green stuff means Ciena Maltz has everything
you need if you want bulk loads delivered if you're
within twenty miles of them. They're down south of Houston
on FM twenty or five twenty one, five twenty one,

(56:17):
kind of near the Highway six to eighty eight area.
Then they'll deliver within twenty miles. Also, if you want
to go pick it up, you can go there and
pick it up. You can pick it up by supersack,
you can pick it up by bulk, you can pick
it up by bags. I mean they carry a wide
variety of things at cienamlts. They also have They just
keep adding a lot of nice landscape bling to everything too.

(56:40):
They've got some beautiful metal yard art that they've got
out there. They got the vego beds that you can
see they're set up, they're growing in them because they
sell those there. Pottery shrooms, the little mushrooms, ceramic mushrooms,
lots of different things inside soaps, candles, lotions, even harvest baskets.
They have a nice stock of seeds as well, and

(57:01):
a really good selection of quality tools too. It's a
one stop shop for homeowners that are looking to turn
their place into something really special and beautiful Cienamaltz dot com.
I'm going to go to Laporte now and talk to Brenda. Hello, Brenda,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 15 (57:21):
Good morning, Skip.

Speaker 14 (57:22):
Thank you so much for taking my call. I sent
a picture in I'm not sure. I have a piggy
morton rose, and I don't know what's eating the leaves.
I don't know if it's funges of fungus, if it's
an insect, if it's drought it's the leaves are green
and then it gradiates to yellow, and then I have
little black doss all over the leaves. And now it

(57:42):
looks like something's eating leaves, but I can't see any insect.

Speaker 6 (57:46):
Yeah, okay, so well I'll tell you what I see
on you on your the older leaves, the yellowing. It
it could be just the leaves are getting older and
we're moving into the cool season. If it went through
a drought time, it'll you'll get some of that kind
of symptom. Even after the watering comes, it'll drop yellow
and drop some leaves. But I don't see anything that

(58:07):
concerns me. Your leaves are very very dark green. They
look healthy. There's a little bit of cupping on the leaves,
and I think those could be affected by spider mites,
but you you got to check it. If you'll take
one of those leaves that's kind of cupped and get
a white piece of paper and just thump the leaf
over the paper, you know, hold it with one hand

(58:28):
and with your finger and thumb, just thump real sharply,
and then look at the paper. If you see little
specks but they're moving around, that's spider mites. And I
would probably you know, at this point in the season,
spider mites are going downhill because of the temperature is
going to be going down here soon, so I would
probably just blast them with water from underneath that, Peggy Martin,
just just try to blast all the undersides of the

(58:50):
leaves as best you can. That's probably adequate for where
we are in the season. Two more things I see
in your photo. There are some leaves with little tiny
holes in them, little tiny slips. That is some feeding.
Could be a beetle, probably not a caterpillar, but probably
a beetle. But they're long gone and there's just almost
no significant damage at all from those. Your plan is

(59:13):
obviously very happy. The other thing you see that you
think of being eaten. That's that is a leaf cutter bee.
It's a bee that cuts a little round, uh just
smaller than a marble, little round scallops out of the
leaf and takes them back to its nest. Nothing to
worry about it all not going to hurt your rose.

Speaker 8 (59:32):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 11 (59:32):
I've been on that. Thank you.

Speaker 6 (59:35):
All right, Well, i gotta go on up again. A hard,
hard break and I've got to put you on hold.
We're going, we'll go go to a break right here
and we'll be by all right, head back with us.
You got a question you'd like to ask, give me
a call seven one three two one two five eight

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seven four seven one three two fifty eight seventy four.
Be happy to visit with you about that. Yesterday we
gave away four bags of Microlife brown patch, and I
want to talk about that product just a little bit.
By the way, thanks to the folks at Microlife for
making that donation for our appearance down at Moss Nursery
down at Seabrook. Microlife brown Patch is in a brown bag,

(01:00:22):
so it's real easy to pick it out among the
other Microlife products. It is a fall fertilizer. We put
it down for the fall, but it is loaded with
all kinds of microbial content that fight disease in various ways.
Sixty three different species of microbes that fight disease. And

(01:00:44):
I mentioned earlier that you know the basilla subtlests. I
was talking about that yesterday. That is one you can
actually buy bottles of a products that contain Bascilla subtlest
because it's used as in that case, they use it
to spray and shut down diseases of some types on
certain plants. And that's how nature works. Nature provides microbes
that help keep a balance out there in the soil,

(01:01:06):
and microbe a microlife brown patch contains that inoculation. That's
why we like to put it on in the fall
because you know we have our brown patch. It comes
out at that time of the year, and uh, we
just want to get that the soil as healthy as
we can because healthy soil means healthy plants, and healthy
plants means success. Whether success is a nice beautiful green

(01:01:27):
lawn or success is a nice vine, ripe tomato or
a flower bit full of beautiful flowers. Micro life brown patch,
that's the one you need to be applying now, and
you do need to apply it now, don't don't delay.
We've got it listed on into October on my schedule,
and I would just say the sooner you do that

(01:01:49):
and get it down, the better off you're going to be.
That lawn will have plenty of time to take in
those nutrients and become stronger in the winter and stronger
coming out in the spring as well.

Speaker 10 (01:02:00):
Well.

Speaker 6 (01:02:02):
You are listening to Gardenline phone number here seven to
one three two one two five eight seven four seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I
want to suggest that you check out a website because
I want you to see the kind of work that
this company does. That website is Houston powder Cooders dot com.

(01:02:24):
Houston Powdercoders dot com. What does that mean? They dust
stuff with powder? No, not quite like that. I think
about painting. You know, I've done spray painting myself, and
I've spray painted metal myself, and inevitably I get those
runs and I don't quite get the paint done in
the nooks and crannies like I want to, and if
I try, I get more of the runs going down

(01:02:45):
at powder coning is different. They electrostatically charge that metal
and the powder is in the air in this little
chamber that they are big chamber that they have, and
it actually goes and sticks to the metal. It like
draws the powder which is essentially a paint to the metal.
It moves in all the nooks and crannies and it

(01:03:06):
hardens very hard. It is better than painting. It really
is very effective. Houston Powder Coats has like one hundred
plus different colors that they can do. So if you've
got old furniture in the yart, if you've got a
yard art that is metal that's kind of starting to rust.
Maybe it's something hanging on the house and now the

(01:03:26):
rust is running down the side of the house. Whatever
it is. I say barbecue bets. You know, you could
have a very nice, expensive barbecue bet or one you
don't want to spend that money on. Again, right, you
have Houston Powder Coats turn it into something brand new.
They have surface powder coating that can withstand that kind

(01:03:46):
of heat. They have certain processes where they can do.
And if you're down on the coast and you got
the salt spray, oh my gosh, salt and water on
metal is corrosion it's rust, it's a mess. Well, Powder
Coaders can fix out. They can do the repairs you need,
they can put the coating on that you need. They'll
come and get it and they'll bring it back when

(01:04:08):
they're done. What more could you ask for? The website again,
go look at the work they do. Houston Powdercoaders dot Com.
Go check them out on Facebook too. There you see
a lot of the projects and things that they've done
is amazing. It really works. Breathe new life into your
quality metal furniture outside for much much less than it

(01:04:30):
would cost to buy new. All right, there you go.
I earlier I was talking about the importance of pollination
and fruit trees and planting trees that if they need
a pollinator, give them a pollinator, make sure they do that.
I'm wanna switch over to herbs. A lot of people
haven't grown herbs because they think, well, you know, they

(01:04:53):
picture an herb garden, which are beautiful by the way,
you know, those symmetrical designs and everything that that is pretty.
But a lot of folks aren't going to do that
in their yard. But you can use herbs and containers.
You can use herbs in the landscape. There are herbs
that make good groundcovers time is a good example of
an herb that makes a good groundcover are regano. You

(01:05:13):
have to move back occasionally or cut it back a
little bit, but regano makes a good groundcover. There are
herbs that make good individual plants, so going down a walkway,
you could have some chives, for example, and use that
as a walkway. They put on the blooms and then
the pollinators come to the blooms. It's kind of nice.

(01:05:34):
But there are also herbs that are just good to
mix in with whatever kinds of plantings because of their beauty.
Right now we're in the fall season, and two herbs
that are nice for fall are the pineapple sage, which
is a salvia that blooms late summer and fall with
red tubula flowers and hummingbirds like and the leaves have

(01:05:56):
a pineapple fragrance. They can be used in baking a
cake and other things. Another one is Mexican mint marigold.
It is an herb, very nice plant itself, but in
the late season it puts on these yellow blooms that
are just beautiful, and the foliage is used as a
substitute for terragon. It kind of has a I think

(01:06:18):
it has a black licorice jelly bean kind of scent
to it. I sort of like that. But anyway, there's
a lot of other herbs that are quite ornamental, So
why not mix some in your landscape? In my gardens?
When I was in Cyprus, Texas, I had a garden
that I had a regano growing on both ends of
a tomato row that I had, and I even threw

(01:06:40):
some basil in. So what do you need to make
pestos and sauces and things like that? A basil, maybe,
a regano, maybe certainly some tomato sauce. Right, So that
is just a row that was just set up for
you know, here comes a pizza and so you can
do that kind of thing too. Herbs often have small

(01:07:00):
flowers that attract beneficial insects. I know, the blooms of
time and the blooms of rosemary. Do trailing rosemaries bloom
better than the upright rosemaries do? They're both great plants,
but why not incorporate some herbs. Our garden centers have
plenty of herbs. I was at the Arborgate the other
day and my goshr they have a whole little herb

(01:07:21):
house outside that is just loaded with quality herbs. By
the way, Arburgate got in a brand new shipment of
fruit trees too, you know, they carry fruit trees twelve
months out of the year at Arburgate. They got a
brand new selection of all kinds of fruit trees in there,
and it's time to get those in the ground. They also,
of course have beautiful color, beautiful camellias two at arbor Gate,

(01:07:43):
beautiful roses. They're a mile and a half west of
two forty nine on twenty nine to twenty, a mile
and half west of Tombaugh and it's just a great place.
Remember they got that parking lot and back off Trischel Road,
which Trasher Roads is a little loop. It starts at
twenty nine to twenty, goes behind our Arburgate and comes
back to twenty nine to twenty. So whether you get

(01:08:03):
on it before Urburgate or after Arburgate, either way you're coming,
you can pull around to the back and get into
that nice new all weather parking lot that is so
easy for access. You know, it's just a much larger
holds a lot more cars and if you've been to Arburgate,
you know how popular it is, so go check it out.
Time for us to take a little break here and
we'll be right back for the last segment of this hour.

(01:08:26):
All right, let's do this. We're back, ye, welcome back
to garden Line. If you have a question and you
would like to reach out seven one three, two, one two,
five eight seven four will try to help you with
having a better successful garden and landscape and more fun
in the process. I always have to throw that in
because you know, gardening is not just like all this

(01:08:48):
pressure and we've got to get everything perfect. No, No,
it's not. Nature's not that way, right, I mean, think
about nature. It is a very it is a very
random and it's a natural design that just sort of
is beautiful its own way. So when we go into
our landscapes and we try to get everything set up

(01:09:08):
like everybody else's landscape, some people feel like, well, I
can't quite do that. MIT's not pretty. Well it is,
it is, and you can make it more beautiful year
by year by year, just as you learn, as you
try new things, as you build a soil, and I
want to encourage you to do that. You real upbeat.
I am very upbeat about gardening. I think it is
the best hobby that there is and I can literally

(01:09:31):
bring stacks of research in to prove that the mental
benefits the physical benefits of gardening. And then even when
it comes down to things like helping patients in a
hospital heal faster. So no, I'm not saying that people
that are just had surgery five minutes ago are out
in the garden. What I'm saying is when they've done

(01:09:53):
research where people in hospital beds look out their window
at a parking lot versus looking out their window at
a natural scene, nature, flowers, beauty, they measured a difference
in healing right on that. That's amazing. Kids with ADHD
in school, what they are exposed to, the kinds of

(01:10:14):
nature they get exposed to, and the effect on helping
them with their scores and whatnot. Older folks dealing with
a dementia or other issues, there is a difference, and
gardening is magical when it comes to that. And I'm
congratulations for listening to garden Line. If you're not a gardener,
you're just one of those folks that hangs out and
listens because you don't know. Maybe I'll play a weird

(01:10:36):
song or say something silly, Well, you how to try
it yourself. It is the best hobby that there is.
Since we're on a Sunday morning here, I'll have to
tell this. I have some friends that are ministers, and
I often tell them that, well, I'm actually the one

(01:10:58):
that is doing the work that God originally created for
man to do. It wasn't a cubicle of Eden, right,
It was a garden of Eden. And so the original occupation,
if you will, a man, was to tend a garden.
So there you go, put that in your pipe and
smoke its tongue in cheek, But a little bit of

(01:11:20):
truth to that.

Speaker 10 (01:11:20):
One.

Speaker 6 (01:11:22):
Nature story resource is a great place to get all
kinds of things to make your soul better. You know
John Ferguson when he created this place years ago, it's
named Nature's Way for a reason. He gives you all
the products to make success in your lawn Nature's Way.
And I say he his son, Ian is now running

(01:11:43):
the place and carrying on that same tradition. And the
products are there, the quality is there. The nursery just
keeps expanding of the cool plants that they offer. I'm
going to be out there next Saturday. That is October
the eleventh. I'll be there from twelve to two. Now
the event will be going on longer than just twelve
to two, but it is their big fall festival out

(01:12:03):
at Nature's Way. They are going to have like forty
vendors out there. They'll be all kinds of fun for
kids and adults and everything, music and you name it.
They're gonna have Peggy Martin. In fact, right now, Peggy
Martin roses are on special three gallons for thirty dollars
as long as they last. If you buy a Peggy
Martin rose, you need to buy that Peggy Martin rose.

(01:12:25):
You can get half off bagged or bulk roast soil,
so there's the whole package. You got the soil for
them to create that perfect foundation. You got the rose
to put in it, and Peggy Martin's a great rose
to do that. They're really attractive too, there in three
gallon pots, and they got the kind of a staked
up real tall, so they're ready to go in your landscape.

(01:12:47):
Now again, the Peggy Martin deal goes on until October
the eleventh. You go out today and buy a Peggy
Martin out there and get that deal on the bagged
or bulk rose soil. But anyway, Nature's Way resources quality
products come out next Saturday, October the eleventh, twelve to two.
I'm gonna be giving a little talk. They are not
a nice shady area, They're kind of toward the back,

(01:13:08):
and I'll be there answering gardening questions, looking at samples
from gardeners. People always bring me bags of weeds and
bugs and whatever else that leaves that are diseased, and
we'll diagnose them for you, help you get off to
the right start. That is important in the garden outside

(01:13:33):
that were in my backyard where I have my vegetables growing,
there are mostly okra still right now because I breed
okra crossokra to make a new varieties and stuff, and
so I have to have a lot of plants to
do that. And so the garden in summer is basically
an okra garden. It's about to transition and become a
cool season garden. And so there you go. I talk

(01:13:55):
about Southwest Fertilizer all the time. Do you know that
he carries our herbs and vegetable outside on Southwest There
a nice selection, very nice selection. So why are you
there going to get your fertilizer for your lawn and
fertilizer for your garden beds and seeds, both the bulk
which are the most inexpensive way to buy seed. Do
you get a little scoop and scoop out the seeds

(01:14:16):
or the packets, Yes, packets as well. You can pick
up maybe some herbs and some of the nice little
fall gardening plants that Bob Carrey's there at Southwest Fertilizer.
They're in their seventieth year and they take care of
their customers and that's why this place has been around
for so long and is so successful. Corner of Byssinet
and Runwick. When you go, you are going to experience

(01:14:38):
friendly service and quality products and a selection like none
other in the whole region for all kinds of things
from fertilizers to tools to pest disease and weed management
as well. That's Southwest Fertilizer. So anyway, I'm going to
be gardening myself this week, need to add a little

(01:14:58):
bit of compost to my beds. They're sunking down a
little bit. Have you noticed how flower pots and garden
beds sink down over time? You know, you had a
pot that was full of soil, full of potting soil
and your growing stuff, and all of a sudden it's
like a third down or halfway down. Well, that's because
all organic materials continue to decompose, you know. Compost is

(01:15:20):
not the final product. Humus is the final product. And
so you occasionally need to pull them out of the pot,
maybe cut some rootster circling around the pot, Maybe put
them in a little bit larger pot, and put some
fresh potting soil in there, and that continues to make
it a good soil for growing things in your garden.

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So I need to add some composts to my beds.
And I also am going to be trying a number
of different veggies this year. Every year I try something different,
and I think I would suggest you do that too.
Maybe your favorite tomato is I don't know, big Boy,
or one of the old varieties. If you will try
a new variety along with the ones you like each year,

(01:16:05):
try one, are two or three. Some people try five
new ones along with the ones they grow. You may
find your new favorite variety. We were talking earlier, you know,
and Lloyd had called in about this squash that he
has and how productive and tasty and everything it is
there you go. You never know if you didn't try
a new one. But what are you gonna try new

(01:16:25):
this year? How about flowers? We're aring the cool season
where we've got dianthus, so many kinds available. We've got
pansies and violas, and our area is so mild, you know,
you'd probably get your listen to go through. In some
cases the snapdragon's evil carry on pretty good for you
through there. Stock is another beautiful plant that isn't planted enough.

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It's a cool seasoned plant. Colendula flowers. Those are beautiful too.
By the way, do you know the pedals are edible colendulas.
It's one of the one of the flowers that has
edible petals on it. And then there's no star shows
and those are just beautiful as well, and have edible
peppery playing the flowers on those. What are you gonna
try and do this ship? Those are a few ideas

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we'll do that.

Speaker 1 (01:17:15):
Welcome to Katy r. H. Garden Line with Skip Richards.

Speaker 10 (01:17:26):
Trim.

Speaker 6 (01:17:27):
Just watch him as.

Speaker 3 (01:17:34):
So many girl things to sapotasya.

Speaker 2 (01:17:43):
Again.

Speaker 6 (01:17:44):
Sorry, all right, we're back. Welcome back to the garden Line.
Thanks for listening in on a nice Sunday out there.
I hope you are enjoying yourself and have a wonderful
day planned. I was talking about Nature's Way Resources earlier,

(01:18:08):
and I just want to remind you again. I'm going
to be at Nature's Way Resources on October the eleventh.
That's next Saturday. Next Saturday. The Nature's Way, if you
don't know, is on off Interstate forty five up toward
Conroe where fourteen eighty eight comes in from the west.
Instead of going toward Magnolia, you turn right go across

(01:18:30):
the railroad tracks in your Nature's Way. So I hope
you plan on coming out. Bring some samples and whatever else.
We're going to have some really good giveaways. We are
going to be basically having a good time. They create
quite the shindig up there at Nature's Way Resources ever
fall for their festival, and this one is the biggest
and best that they've had. Over forty vendors, I believe,

(01:18:52):
or are now scheduled to come to it, and all
the other things that just make it a fun outing.
Bring kids, bring your family. You know, I've got a neighbor,
maybe they're not a big gardener, just bring them. Let
them have a good time and come on out. I'll
be in the back giving a talk answering gardening questions
from twelve to two twelve o'clock to two pm at
Nature's Way, but you can come earlier in the morning.

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They've got stuff going on all through the day. All
righty well. Plants for All Seasons Garden Center on two
forty nine, which is Tomball Parkway, just north of Luetta.
It is a place that everyone in the region knows
about plant all seasons. They've gone. There's very popular because

(01:19:35):
they have the expertise that you need, They have the
plants that you want, and they got the products that
you need to get things right. You know, before you
can even get to the checkout, you have to go through.
First of all, when you walk in, you walk past
all the quality soil blends and mixes that they carry.
And then as you're getting to the checkout point there,
you're walking past the fertilizers and nutrients, and so it's

(01:19:56):
like they're setting you up to do the brown stuff
before the green stuff. Take home those products when you
take own plants, so that the plants will do their
very best. It's been around since nineteen seventy three. This
family own owned and operated a garden center, and I
just think that it's a fun place to go. I
always enjoy going in there and visiting with the team.

(01:20:19):
If you have pictures or samples you want to bring
in something at your house you want to bring in
and maybe it's a picture of something your neighbor has
that you want to have. Plants for all seasons. Tell
you what plant is that and how can I grow
it here? They can do that. They also don't forget
how the gardening services they do delivery. They can do
tree planting as well. They got something called pot to trot,

(01:20:40):
which means they take custom can they make custom containers
for you? You know, you pick out a container, they
help you pick out all these plants. They put it
all together, so it's like ready to go, ready to
trot out the door with you and make your place
look really nice. If you got any kind of parties
coming up, you definitely want to get that decorated outside

(01:21:01):
and plants rail seasons has that of course, that's for sure.
It is time for all the fall things that we're
doing in our landscape, our lawn. Rather specifically, the Texas
three step is something that Nitroposs coined. You know, we
got the Texas two step from the Nansalls. Well, Texas
three step is what we do in the fall, and

(01:21:23):
that is a Nitrofoss Fall Special Winter Riser. It's an
eight twelve sixteen fertilizer for fall. It is a barricade
Nitrofos barricade application that prevents weed seeds from sprouting. And
it's eagle turf fungicide from Nitrofos that is taken up
by your lawn to protect it against brown patch and
other diseases. Now, this one two three, it is very

(01:21:46):
important that we do it when we're doing it here,
very important because we need to get the fertilizer down
now so that the plants have a chance, the grass
plants have a chance to take it up and get
ready for winter and come out stronger in spring. So
don't wait too long to get that down. Let's get
it down now. For the weeds. They're going to be
germinating soon. Barricade prevents them from making plants. But if

(01:22:08):
the barricade's not there when they sprout and start to
grow into weeds, you've missed the boat. So get it
down now. Nitrofas Eagle tar fungicide is taken up by
your Saint Augustine lawn and if brown patch, if you
had a problem with brown patch in the past, then
you're probably going to have it back again this year
whenever it cools off and get a little rain or
irrigation on the lawn and the eagle tar fungicide gets

(01:22:31):
in the grass plant so that it protects it from
getting that disease. Brown Patch is way, way, way more
better prevented than trying to cure it. Once we already
have it. You're going to find night Foss products, It
Bearings Hardware on Westheimer and Shanna Garden's Done in Richmond,
a Stanton shopping Center on Alvin Fisher's Hardware, and Laporte

(01:22:53):
the Arborgate and Tomball carries Night Foss products as well
as does Fisher's Hardware down in Mont Bellevue. We got
an open line if you would are open lines, if
you would like to give me a call. Now it
is seven to one three two one two KTRH. Now
don't wait until the last segment, the last part of

(01:23:14):
the last segment of the day. That's when it gets busy,
and I want everybody to have a chance to call
and me to have time to talk with you as well.

Speaker 12 (01:23:22):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (01:23:22):
I was visiting Sienna Ace Hardware. And by the way,
Sienna Ace Hardware is still having their grand opening. It
was Friday and yesterday and today Sienna Ace Hardware's grand opening.

Speaker 10 (01:23:35):
Now.

Speaker 6 (01:23:35):
They're located on Highway six down in Missouri City. It's
kind of like we're Sienna Parkway and Highway six come
together right in that spot that area. In this deal.
They've got all kinds of Halloween decorations. They've got the
uh stuff you need for inside your house. Of course,
the fertilizers I was there. Their section of plant control

(01:23:56):
products is very nice. You're gonna be able to get
your fall fertilizers there at Cnace Hardware and so go
by and check out the grand opening. There's going to
be giveaways all weekend, just all kinds of things that
are drawing for and giving away. And you just need
to know about your local Ace Hardware store. For those
of you all over the area. You go to Ace
Hardware Texas dot com to find your Ace Hardware store.

(01:24:19):
Maybe your Southwest Plantation Ace on Mason Road and rich
and Rosenberg if you're out way at the folks listening
in Victoria on Navarro Streets or Ace Hardware Port Lavaca
and Calhoun Plaza, Rockport on State Highway thirty five north.
If you're up in the Champions area kind of northwest
hoastern area, Spring Cypress in Spring, there you go, there's

(01:24:40):
your store, and then Langham Creek which is on five
twenty nine in the Cypress area. Langham Creek, Case Hardware
all good stores that have all these things that you need,
from taking care of your lawn to taking care of
your house indoors and out. Ace got you covered. You're
listening to Guardline. The number is seven one three two

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one two fifty eight seventy four. I was encouraging you
to try planting some herbs this fall and also try
planting something different. What are you going to plant different
that you've never grown before this fall? You know, if
you if you always have enjoyed maybe you like pansies,
uh and violas or a lissome, why not put a

(01:25:21):
mixed planter together that you haven't done before. Just a
tip and I like blue, it's one of my favorite colors.
But if you take pansies that are dark blue and
light blue and white, and then you use something like
a lissom that's a white blooming flower over the side
of the container, or put some dusty miller that's a
silvery plant. It does bloom eventually, but we're not planting

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for the bloom. We're planting for the leaves. Dusty miller
mixed in with those colors, the blue and the dark
and light blue and white, it looks really good. It's
a beautiful color combination. Now, you plant whatever colors you want,
but there are some things that are a little more
aesthetically pleasing. How about creating some of those containers for
your home this year. Put them outside where you can
enjoy them, in an area where you sit and enjoy

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the outdoors. Just another idea to try. Let's go to
a quick break and when we come back hurt in spring,
you're gonna be our first stop. Oh yeah, all right,
little track this morning on garden line. You'd like, I
can wait a minute so you can finish your jitterbugging
in the living room. Good to have you back. The

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folks that intend it forest always have just such an
outstanding selection of plants. I love going there, but you
will too. If you haven't been, you need to go
right now. Oh are they ever loaded on cool season color?
I mean, you name it, they've got it. The place
looks great when it comes to decorations, you know, it's

(01:26:50):
the season where we get out and put out the pumpkins,
and well, they got the real deal. You know, pumpkins
and squashes that are so decorative. They also have the
tall of ara pumpkins, really pretty use them year after year.
Pumpkin decorations that you can use year after year, all
the Halloween stuff, They've got it all there. They do
such a good job in chanting for us. Now, when

(01:27:11):
you're down there, you need to check out the herb
house because it is loaded up and they have herbs
you've never grown before. I promise you they have. Like
have you ever grown Vietnamese coriander before? I probably not.
Have you ever grown French sorrel before? Some of you have,
but I bet most haven't. They've got you covered. They
got beautiful plants for the vegetables as well, and then

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it's time to plant trees and shrubs and chanted forest
carries all of those.

Speaker 3 (01:27:36):
You know.

Speaker 6 (01:27:36):
I'm always bragging on the Chinese fringe tree, my favorite
spring blooming tree. Every time I go out there. I'll
see a Chinese fringe that they have. I see a
d Chinese fringes that they have. If it's a shrub,
it's a tree, it's a perennial. Now's the time to planet.
And that's true for perennials. I keep talking about woody plants.
You know, plant those in the fall. Plant those in

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the fall. Perennials are better to plant in the fall.
And Chenny Forest has carried ninety different types of Salvio
and that is just crazy. Did you even know there
were ninety? Actually, actually they're more than night. There's like
nine hundred or a thousand types of salvi in the world,
but ninety that do well here and you can get
them there at enchanted Forest enchented Forest Richmond, TX dot com.

(01:28:21):
That's a website intended Forest Richmond. Don't forget the TX
dot com. They are located on FM twenty seven fifty nine.
If you're in Richmond heading up towards sugar Land, it's
off to the right twenty seven to fifty nine. But
go to that website Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot com.
We're going to go now out to Herta in Spring
Branch and good morning, hurte, welcome to garden line.

Speaker 19 (01:28:45):
Well, thank you, good morning. My question is, oh, my
yard was horrible and the yard man came, but when
he finished the job, he didn't rake everything up. Now
is it better in our drowse right now to just

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leave like leaves and well, the grass is okay, I
mean it's three inches tall, but to keep that covered
from the sun until we get some brain or I've
been watering, but.

Speaker 17 (01:29:28):
Still is it better just leave that day breather.

Speaker 19 (01:29:33):
Or rake it up?

Speaker 6 (01:29:36):
Is the debris and flower beds are on your lawn,
it's on the lawn, okay, you need to get that
raked off right now. Those those lawn grass blades are
catching sunlight to make that plant strong for winter and spring.
And if there's leaves sunlight okay, So it's important to

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keep those raked off even in the winter time. During
some warm periods we'll have our grass. Well, we'll do
a little bit of photo synthesis, and so I don't
like to leave leaves onto and also that brown patch
gets a chance. Yeah, I'm glad you called you. Well,
good luck with that. Have them go back out very much.

(01:30:21):
Always good to talk with you. Mm bye bye. Let's
go now to Doug in Houston. Doug, welcome to garden.

Speaker 18 (01:30:32):
Hi, good morning. Back in August, I had I got
hit by bround patch. I'm sorry, take all really bad
and and you walked me through the process. I made
all all the different steps, visited uplooks, fertilizers, that all
the products you suggested. Lawn st Augustine long has made

(01:30:53):
almost a full recovery. I still have where there's where,
there's bermuda. But one of them is my next step.
Should I be jump right into the fall feeding schedule
or is there something else I should be doing to
help the lawn.

Speaker 6 (01:31:11):
Well. Fall feeding schedule is due now, so getting a
good quality fertilizer out for the fall that would be.
That would be what I would recommend. Okay, this have
you had problems would take off? I mean with the
brown patch in the past, the big brown circles.

Speaker 10 (01:31:32):
Intermittently.

Speaker 6 (01:31:33):
But yeah, okay, well you can put the preventative for
that out now too, because once the circles are there,
it's a little late to accomplish a lot. You can
prevent additional circles. But you know you got those brown
spots all winter. Your grass has been through a lot,
and so we want to not have it lose more
grass blades, whether that's too brown patch or anything, and

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so that would be something to consider.

Speaker 5 (01:31:59):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (01:31:59):
And then because you had the die back but have
grown back in again, if you feel like you got
enough density and you haven't had an ongoing weed problem,
you're probably okay. But if you have any doubts there
there's some still some thin areas. That's where the barricade
is going to prevent the cool season weeds from coming in.
So those are those are options for you now, but

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definitely the fertilizer for.

Speaker 10 (01:32:22):
Fall, okay.

Speaker 18 (01:32:24):
And then once more more follow up is the areas
where I have bermuda, I mean I guess I just
manually pull it out. The best way to treat that.

Speaker 6 (01:32:40):
No, it's it's you're not going to get it out
of there that way. It has underground rhizomes that make
it impossible to pull out. And if it's in a
flower bed, you can get a spade and park and
try digging it out, but not in the lawn. A
couple of options on that, doug You can if the
bermuda is like focused mainly in one spot, you could

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choose to just kill everything, all the grass in that spot,
and then replant your Saint Augustine. Now, you could do
that now if you can plant right away. You don't
want to. You don't want to wait till November to
plant Saint Augustine. So you could do that now, or
you could do that next spring. If the bermuda is
kind of scattered through the whole lawn, then you're not

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probably not gonna want to kill the whole lawn, and
you kind of live with the two of them. Saint
Augustine will do better in the shade. Bermuda likes the
sun and can survive the drought better, So you want
to keep it well watered to give the Saint Augustine
the best chance. Mow mo higher like Saint Augustine likes
to be mowed. Don't mow it too low because then

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you're giving bermuda a little bit of an advantage.

Speaker 18 (01:33:47):
Okay, and maybe a week or so ago, I say
some before and after shots here email just for you.

Speaker 6 (01:33:54):
Oh yeah, yeah it does. I hadn't made that. Thank
you for those shots and for permission to use those.
That is really great. I was impressed. Obviously you caught
it early enough. A lot of people had the take all,
but by the time they start doing anything about it,
the grass was dead. Well products don't make dead grass

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come alive, and so you caught it early enough to
where you were able to turn it around. So that's great.
Thank you for those photos.

Speaker 18 (01:34:23):
Sure, I'll say something for you and for the listeners.
The one thing I noticed to really helped turn the
tide and tackling Take Off Root Rock was the application
of Pete Moss.

Speaker 10 (01:34:34):
Yeah, I appreciate it.

Speaker 6 (01:34:37):
Yeah, Yeah, That's why I wrote that publication because if
I sat here and told you everything about Take All
Root rot it would take the whole show, you know,
to go into all the nooks and crannies. And Pete
Moss is something I don't mention on the air much
because that's a whole other monster to explain, and people
sometimes only half listen to what I'm saying. I imagine that,

(01:34:57):
and so so yeah, get that anybody who's listening that
I'd take all and stuff online on my website Gardening
with Skip dot com take All Root Rode and in depth. Look,
you need to read that, uh, and that way you
can turn your yard around too. Hey, Doug, I'm gonna
I'm gonna move on, but thank you again. I do
appreciate your call.

Speaker 18 (01:35:17):
Thank you, Skip.

Speaker 6 (01:35:20):
All righty, let's go out to John and Tomball. Hey John,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 11 (01:35:26):
Good morning, Skip. I got a quick question, Uh, is
it too hot right now for tomatoes because they're just
not producing very much.

Speaker 6 (01:35:37):
Uh, it's still a little on the warm side for tomatoes,
but they should set here as it cools off a
little bit more. So, don't give up on your tomato
plants just yet. I think, uh there's a chance, and
you're probably gonna end up picking some green tomatoes to
bring in and ripen on the counter inside. But it
all depends on when that first frost hits. And we
you know, we we don't know until it happens, right.

Speaker 11 (01:36:01):
I mean, I've got some blooms, okay, but it's not
producing much, you know, because the sun just hits you directly.

Speaker 6 (01:36:08):
So well, just keep keep them well watered. That's important.
You want them to be healthy so they don't abort
the blooms that you have. But the combination our nights
are right for tomatoes to be able to set again.
Our days are a little on the warm side. But
I would expect that you should be seeing some tomatoes

(01:36:29):
set now because the brunt of the heat has gone.
So just hang in there. I expect to see more.
I'm gonna have to go here for a heartbreak, but
I wish you well with those. And remember the rule
on garden line is the advice is free, but you've
got to give me half of what you grow as
a result of the advice.

Speaker 10 (01:36:46):
So here we go. Yeah, thank you, Here we go.

Speaker 6 (01:36:51):
Take care John, all right, I know, I know it's ridiculous,
but I have to do that. Well, I'm too short
on time to take the next calls, but I will
let you know. Day and Spring and John in Cyprus.
You're gonna be our first two up when we come
back from this break in just a second. Don't forget
next Saturday, the eleventh, albeit Nature's Way Resources, I'm gonna

(01:37:12):
be there from twelve to two. The shindig is going
to be going on from the morning, so you know,
just come on early and have a good time. Bring
the kids, bring neighbors and family because it's a fun event.
And I'll be giving some little talks and answering gardening
questions and doing diagnostics out there at Nature's Way Resources,
which is off of I forty five north up toward
Conrod direction. All right, we're gonna take our little break

(01:37:35):
and we will be back with the second half of
this hour. Very good little music for our Southeast Texas
Louisiana neighbors this morning. Thank you for listening to Guardline.
Good heavy with us. By the way. Affordable tree Service
Martin spoon Moore, he has been doing this for a

(01:37:58):
long long time. The guy those trees right now, he's
got a deal. First of all, he's he's still signing
people up. I think you can still get into October.
He may be booked for October, but you need to
call him for your dormit tree pruning. Get on the schedule.
No one's looked at your trees in the last two
or three years. You definitely need to have somebody come
in and look at them. You know, the longer you
put off a pruning decision, the bigger wound you create.

(01:38:21):
So it's always better to do things early than it
is to do things too late. And Martin knows how
to do this. Have him come out and check out
your trees, do any dormancies and pruning that is necessary.
Get him booked here's how you do it. You call
seven to one to three six nine nine twenty six
sixty three seven one three six ninety nine two six

(01:38:42):
six three. Now with every tree that he trims, you
get a free deep root feeding on that tree. You
know it's not going to deeproof feed all the trees
in your yard. When you have one prune the tree
that gets pruned around that tree, they'll do the deep
root feeding of each tree. However, many have done seven
to one three two six six three. Remember if you

(01:39:04):
call and you don't talk to Martin or his wife Joe,
or maybe Mom, you hang up and you call again
seven one three six nine nine two six sixty three.
Sometimes people lure people away from other businesses to get
them to call their business. Well, don't let that happen
to you, and you talk to Martin. All right, We're
going to go now out to Jay in Spring. Hey, Jay,

(01:39:27):
welcome to the garden.

Speaker 10 (01:39:28):
Lineod morning, Skip, How are you warn it that? Good?

Speaker 20 (01:39:34):
All right. I've got a neighbor has some tropical, low
growing trees and he's wanting to put them in a
greenhouse over the winter. There's a double door model. He's
looking at a forty eight inch opening. I think we'll
be able to get him in there for this year,
but I don't think they'll fit next year. They're going
to be so big. Do you know of any alternative,

(01:39:57):
maybe a frame or rolled down on type greenhouse structure
we could put up for him that he could use
more than one year?

Speaker 6 (01:40:07):
Right, tell me the kind of trees were the plants
we're talking about.

Speaker 20 (01:40:10):
I'm not sure what they're talking what they're called. They're
about four feet high and about four feet in diameter.
And he hesitates to turn him so, well, I don't
know exactly what they are.

Speaker 6 (01:40:21):
That's fine. Yeah, Well, so they're in the ground, so
you can't bring them into a protected spot.

Speaker 20 (01:40:29):
Now they're actually they're they're in big pots.

Speaker 6 (01:40:33):
Okay, I'm sorry I missed that. Well, so the thing
you can do, or potentially can do, is is roll
them into a protected garage. If you if you use
a dolly that has nice pneumatic tires, you know, so
there's a little bit of a cushion there. It's easier
to go through the yard without making a deep rut.
Uh and uh do you put a strap around the plant?

Speaker 10 (01:40:55):
You can?

Speaker 6 (01:40:55):
You can move those things with not a lot of
effort with the dolly and get them in protected spot
on those nights when it's it's gonna be too cold.
If you want to build something around them, I would
probably use PVC pipe and something nice and sturdy and strong,
maybe two inch pvc UH to make a box. Think
you remember the old box kites we used to make

(01:41:18):
that were made out of ice of wood in boxes
out of them, something like that, out of PVC. And
then you want to you want to anchor it down
into the ground so that it is not going to
blow over because when we get a good coal front
with our freeze, you know you don't want it blowing over.

Speaker 12 (01:41:35):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (01:41:36):
And then covering it with a clear plastic so that
the sunlight can still get through. Are they I guess
you may not know this one, but are they evergreens
or do they lose their leaves in the winter.

Speaker 20 (01:41:48):
No, they're not evergreens. They look more like a I
guess more like a magnolia leaf type plant.

Speaker 6 (01:41:56):
Okay, but they don't have leaves on them. You can
just put a tarp over the thing. But what you're
doing is you're creating a dead air space around that plant.
If you don't have it sealed up or the when
the wind blow, if the wind can push cold air
in there and the warm air out, then you're not
gaining much. But if you can the dead airspace and
then put sources of heat underneath it, something that I

(01:42:20):
would suggest for that kind of tree is gets you
heat lamps, because they produce quite a bit of warmth.
And you may put two of them or three of
them under there. I don't know. It depends on how
big the box is and how cold the weather gets.
But you can protect them that way underneath there. But
you just need them on a timer, and you'd be
very careful don't get those electrical things down in dry

(01:42:43):
grass because there's you know the danger of fire and
things when that happens. But riding an air tight box
and then you know, i'd open it up a little bit,
just allow some air to move through. You don't want
it to overheat in there on our warm sunny days,
but that's probably the best bet for them. I have
a publication on my website, Gardening with Skip dot com,

(01:43:07):
and it's a publication on protecting plants from frosts and freezes.
You might want to download that and take a look
at it, and I think it'll provide you some other
guide and principles of the process of protecting from cold.

Speaker 20 (01:43:20):
Excellent.

Speaker 10 (01:43:21):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 6 (01:43:23):
Have a good one, all right, you bet, thank you
very much. Appreciate your call. RCW Nurseries corner of right
where Tomball Parkway comes into beout Way eight. It's easy
access to get in and out of website RCW nurseres
dot com. So what's happening there? Perfect storm, a perfect storm,
the best season of the year to plant. What do

(01:43:44):
you ornamentals, perennials, things like that. Rcw's got them on sale.
I met, how can you do better than that? Asias
and camellias fifteen percent off, crape myrtles and select roses
forty percent off, centris trees are forty percent off, boog
and villas fifty I have a way to protect those
in the winter. But that's a really good deal. They

(01:44:05):
got their metal and concrete yard art thirty percent off
as well. Hey, perfect storm man, time to plant and
they've got a sale and the things you need to
be planning. RCW Nursery's corner of belt Wag eight and
tom Ball Parkway. We're going to go now to John
in Cyprus. Hello John, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 11 (01:44:25):
Hello. I sent you a couple of sir, how can
I have some A got a really stubborn weed in
my yard, and I sent you a couple of photos.
I was hoping you could give me some advice on
how to get rid of that thing.

Speaker 6 (01:44:42):
Yeah, that looks to be the photo. One photo. I
have a hard time making out specifics. But the one
that has all those rhizomes on the surface, I think
you've got Behea grass b A H I A. Now,
Behea grass is a very tough plan, just a thick

(01:45:02):
mat of rhizomes. It survives, it's a survivor. In fact,
in Florida, it's used as a lawn. It doesn't make
a nice, beautiful lawn like other grasses can, but it
is used for that. But killing it out of Saint
Augustine pretty much, there's going to be one option, and
it's an option. I don't talk about a lot online

(01:45:23):
because if you misdo it, you can do damage to
your your plants, shrubs and trees in the yard and
also even Saint Augustine a little bit. But it's it's
a product called mets sulfurron. That's the ingredient. And now
if you got a pen, I'll spell that out for you.
It's M E T s U l F. You are

(01:45:47):
a n met sulfur on. Met sulfurron comes in a
brand called ms M M S m uh and what's
ohen and another brand called manor M A N O R.
Those are two different brands of met sulfur on. You
may need to go down to Southwest Fertilizer to find those.

(01:46:11):
They are not in a lot of places. But just remember,
follow the label very carefully and you'll be okay. But
it will kill the heygress without killing your Saint Augustine.

Speaker 11 (01:46:22):
Okay, sounds like a plan.

Speaker 6 (01:46:28):
Alrighty, it's uh, probably not. You may get some benefit
from it. I don't have the label in front of me,
so read the label carefully on thing questions like that.
But I think most of the time for a herbicide
to kill a weed, the weed needs to be actively growing,

(01:46:50):
and that that is probably settling in a little bit.
So I'm kind of iffy on whether you'd get much
benefit now, certainly wouldn't wouldn't hurt to try, but definitely
next year as it starts growing.

Speaker 10 (01:47:04):
Well, all right, I'll see the prize. I might need
some extra time to save.

Speaker 6 (01:47:08):
Up my money. Oh well, you can buy a pretty
small container of it, so I think it's not as bad.
Don't don't let them sell you some big commercial size container.
I think you're very right.

Speaker 10 (01:47:24):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (01:47:24):
I appreciate your call, sir. You take care alrighty, I
believe we need to go to a break, don't we Ahady,
we're back here we go, last segment of this hour
on Garden Line. Good to have you with us. The
folks at Nelson Plant Food have a product in a

(01:47:45):
purple bag, purple, very unusual color, purple bag called carbo Load.
Carbo Load. It's a ten twenty fertilizer. It's got that
high phosphorus or excuse me, high potassium for the fall,
which is what we use to winnize our lawns. It
is also helping your lawn come out stronger in spring.
That's part of the fall. Fertilization does more than just

(01:48:08):
fertilizer grass right then, it's building the grass for a
heartier winter and a better come out, better early emergence
in the spring. Now it contains also a pre emergent
herbicide in it, so you're doing both when you use carbolode.
So do not apply carbolode and then apply a pre

(01:48:29):
emergent herbicide because you've already done it. So we want
to be very clear about that. Be very careful with that.
All products that we apply have to be done according
to the label. You read that label really carefully and
apply it at the right rate. It's very important. If
a tea spoons good, a tablespoon is not better, A
tea spoon is good. That's what you need. Do you
use what the label says. Each forty pound bag covers

(01:48:51):
about five thousand square feet, so when you put it down,
you're going to want to water it in because what
good does nutrients do on top of the ground. You
need them end the ground. What good does a pre
emergent herbicide do on top of the ground. It needs
to be down in there where the seeds are going
to germinate in the surface of the soil. Nelson Plant
Food Carboload ten ten twenty. It works. You just follow

(01:49:13):
the label. You water it in really good and you're
going to see good results from that. Also, it is
false season. It is the season when we are doing
our best planting of the year. Don't go into fall
without Genesis Transplants Transplant Mixed from Nelson. It's part of
the nutri Star line. Genesis is a first retail blend

(01:49:33):
from them to incorporate microiza and bacteria, beneficial bacteria, beneficial
fung fungi that really helped build that soil microbiome so
roots do well. Here's what you're going to do with Genesis.
When you're going to transplant something, whether it's into another
pot or whether it's into the soil. You put the
Genesis on the soil in the hole and you mix

(01:49:54):
it up really good. It is not going to burn
your plant roots. You mix it up really good and
then plant your plant.

Speaker 10 (01:50:01):
Now.

Speaker 6 (01:50:01):
You can also add it scattered around the surface and
scratch some in if you want. But the idea of
Genesis Transplant Mix is that it's part of the soul
that you're planting into and you will see good results
from it as well. I have myself. It's a great
product Nutri Shark Genesis Transplant Mix and or turf Star
Carbon Load both from Nelson. Let's go to the Woodlands

(01:50:24):
now and talk to Matt. Hello, Matt, Welcome, to garden Line.

Speaker 9 (01:50:28):
Hey, good morning, skiff, Thanks for taking my call. Hopefully
this is an easy fix. It's kind of the weirdest
thing that's happening in my lawn. I have got grass
that appears to be growing at uneven levels.

Speaker 11 (01:50:41):
I e.

Speaker 9 (01:50:41):
I've got some thick patches with good, healthy looking grass,
and then I've got other patches that are just shorter
and a little bit lighter in color.

Speaker 10 (01:50:50):
I check the irrigation.

Speaker 9 (01:50:52):
It seems the watering uniformly, and I have not fertilized
this fall, so it's not like I dumped too much
in one area and not noting another.

Speaker 6 (01:51:06):
Uh, John Matt. In these in these areas that you're describing,
are they small or large or is it just kind
of like swirling through the lawn that you're seeing this
difference in growth rate or can you kind of describe
that for me?

Speaker 9 (01:51:21):
Yeah, I would say, Uh, they're relatively small, the largest
ones like six by six foot.

Speaker 10 (01:51:27):
They seem to be.

Speaker 9 (01:51:28):
Only happening in the front yard and only on one
half of the front yard, so I'm not really sure
what's going on.

Speaker 6 (01:51:37):
Okay, have you used any products to control diseases or
weeds or or insects or anything in the lawn this year.

Speaker 9 (01:51:48):
Not not in the lawn. I did use the uh
dinoturferen on some of the the lemons of lawns earlier
this year.

Speaker 6 (01:51:57):
That is okay, I just had to eliminate that. There
are some products that will have a growth regulator effect
and then they slow the growth down a little bit. Boy,
I don't know, you know, it could be that there
was some like take a rock, killing some of the
roots and slowing that the health and growth and vigor
of that plant in certain areas. That's a guess, and

(01:52:22):
maybe not enough of a problem to where you're actually
browning and losing grass. But that is the only thing
I can come up with. If we eliminate the products,
and with everything else you've said, it's to you know,
how you're caring for it and stuff that when you
turn on the sprinkler, the patterns don't matter, don't match
where the sprinkler water is or isn't. You know, you've

(01:52:44):
kind of eliminated a lot of stuff there. So I
would just you know, provide a really good fall fertilization,
get that down, get that grass as strong as you can,
and let's see what it doesn't expring, and if it
doesn't improve next spring, call me back and we may
try a different step or something to it. The take

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All is a little bit of a stretch. It's a
little bit of a stretch, but the only thing I'm
left with after eliminating the other likely causes. So yeah,
that would be my suggestion if you want it. Normally,
I don't recommend hey, try this product to see if
it works or not. But if you wanted to, go
to my schedule and look at the Takeoll root rot,

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there is a product that contains a zoxi, strobin azo
x y, a zoxy, and then strobe. It's the only
azoxy is the only fungicide that has that beginning to
the name in the home and garden market A z
o x Y. And you follow my schedule as to
you're gonna put it on in October, you're gonna put

(01:53:50):
it on again in November. Uh, And that would just
be an extra measuring case. That's what it was doing.
So that's up to you whether you want to do
that or not.

Speaker 10 (01:54:00):
Give it a shot. I really appreciate that.

Speaker 6 (01:54:01):
Thanks giv Yeah, yeah, you got to water it in too.
By the way, Matt. It's taken up by the plant roots,
so you got to water it in after you apply it.
Thanks to appreciate it. All right, we got music that
means we're done with this hour. We got another hour left,
one hour left and garden Line this weekend. You'd like

(01:54:23):
to give us a call, that'd be a good time
to do it. I say this all the time, but
when we get to the end of the show, a
lot of people call and I don't have time to
talk and as much. And also you may end up
waiting for a while. We don't want you to do that.
So if you do plan on giving a call today,
better to do it a little earlier in the nine

(01:54:44):
o'clock hour than later. That's just a tip looking out
for you, all right, folks, don't forget X Saturday at
Nature's Way Resources for the Big Big Cinder. Hope you comple.

Speaker 1 (01:55:02):
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Speaker 2 (01:55:08):
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Speaker 3 (01:55:22):
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Speaker 6 (01:55:29):
That's more music, not a sad.

Speaker 2 (01:55:37):
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Speaker 6 (01:55:42):
All right, folks, here we go. We are saddled up
for the last hour of guarden Line today. This weekend,
and of course we'll be back next weekend. For those
of you listening maybe for the first time, guarden Line
is on the air from six am to ten am
on Saturday and Sunday every weekend here on KTRH in Houston.

(01:56:05):
Now you can listen also for those of you who
are out and about. Maybe you know in your your
car you got a radio. When you're in the house,
I suppose you may have a radio. You can also
listen on your computer, and you can listen on your
cell phone if you download an app that plays music
just fine garden Line. I would suggest you use the
iHeartMedia app and search for garden Line on it. There's

(01:56:26):
only two garden lines in the country, some lady in
the Northeast that I've never met and me down here
in Houston, Texas. So you can turn that phone upside
down and you're in you're a pocket, and turn the
speaker on and go out there and get your gardening done,
or wander around the house doing what you do. Another
way that you can listen to the show. The folks

(01:56:47):
at Medina have so many good products it's kind of
hard sometimes to know where to begin. There. There are
the probably the one. Let me just let me just
pick one here that I would like to talk about
because of the season we're in, and that's medina has
to grow six twelve six plant food. Now, this particular product,
that's a lot of phosphorus. That middle number six twelve

(01:57:08):
twelve percent phosphorus and six. When you're planting plants, phosphorus
is important both for root development and also bloom production
as well, but especially the root development. That's what we're
looking for here. You put a plant in the ground,
it's got a confined root system, and you need it
as fast as possible to get those roots out in
the soil so that plant can thrive. I would take medina.

(01:57:30):
I do take Medina has to grow six twelve six,
Mix it in water. I use watering can and then
just drench it over. Sometimes I'll water the soil in
the pot first, so I get the medina all through
the root cylinder that you're purchasing from the garden center.
Put it in the ground, fit it up about halfway
with soil. The hole that you dug, it's got the

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plant in it, watered in with Medina has to grow
six to six, fill it all the rest of the
way watered in again with some more because you know
water soaks in slowly, and so you just give it
time to thoroughly soak that area. And then I'd wait
a week and then I would do the Medina has
to grow six twelve six again, another week later again,
so us three times at planting, a week later and

(01:58:14):
a week later that you're putting the six to twove
six down in with the soil. You're giving those roots
every chance that you can to hit the ground, run
and do really, really well. Now it's not just for transplanting.
This product can be used for fertilizing any plants that
you have. It helps build the biological activity in the soil,
and it's got the seaweed extracts that are very important

(01:58:36):
in some of the substances they provide to help plants thrive.
Medina products are widely available feed stores, ace hardware stores,
your independent garden centers, Salvos fertilizers. There's lots of places
carry these quality products. If you would like to give
me a call, the number is seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four one three two one

(01:59:01):
two five eight seven four. We'd be happy to visit
with you about that so that you can have good success.

Speaker 21 (01:59:09):
Right.

Speaker 6 (01:59:10):
I talk about pest Pros a lot, and because I
like these folks. They are straight shooters. They're straightforward, and
the stuff they do works, and the approach they have
I like. And you know, when you're putting out a pesticide,
you're putting it out to kill something, whether it's a
rat or a cockroach, or a mosquito or a fire int.

(01:59:31):
And so we want to be very careful with the
way we do that, and we want to use products
and application methods that are as safe as we can uh,
and we want stuff that lasts so they're not having
to come back every few weeks to do it again
and again and again. That's what pest pros is all about.
They know how to treat effectively, they know how to
do so in the safest possible manner, and they know

(01:59:52):
how to use the right kinds of products to give
you that extended control so you get long term control
without those worries. You can call them for a quote
at two eight one two o six forty six seventy
two eight one two o six forty six seventy or
go to the website Dpestbros dot com, dpestbros dot com

(02:00:14):
and you can find out all you need to know.
They go from Texas City all the way up inter
City forty five of the Woodlands and from Baytown on
the east across the Katy area on the west side.
D Past Bros. Pestro Good good folks, good service. Well
here we go. We're going to go out to Crosby
now and talk to Tanya. Hey, Tanya, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 15 (02:00:37):
Hik Skip. I have a question on fall organic fertilization
and pre Emergent resided the front yards last April and
went all organic. Now, so my question on your life
the brown patch Is it also a fall fertilizer.

Speaker 10 (02:00:58):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (02:00:59):
Yes, it is default fertilizer from the folks at Microlife.

Speaker 15 (02:01:03):
And the brown Patch. Okay, so I can treat for fertilizer. Okay.

Speaker 6 (02:01:11):
The other question I have we we wouldn't. I was
gonna say, we wouldn't call it a fungicide, but it's
loaded with beneficial microbes that we know do help fight
various types of diseases on plants and so but it
technically it's not a fungicide. I just need to be
clear about that.

Speaker 15 (02:01:29):
That I wouldn't need anything else if I put it
down for the fungicide.

Speaker 6 (02:01:35):
Uh well, probably not. When you're gardening organically, When you're
raising your lawn organically, you are looking to build a
source slowly over time to build a healthier grass plant
that is more resilient, and then you do the cultural
practices that help it fight. So if you were to
overfertilize with any product, organic or synthetic, and you push

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a lot of a flush of gross, organics tend to
not do that as much as a synthetic would, but
you push that plusher growth, you're gonna have more brown
patch pressure because of that. And if you water a lot,
keep the grass constantly wet, you're gonna have more brown
patch pressure. So if you're in an organic system, you're
using like the Microlife organic product, and you're doing the

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cultural things that you need to do, don't over apply things,
don't keep it wet all the time. Water only is needed,
and then that whole package. That's how organic gardening works
is that we we culturally try to build the best situation,
we avoid promoting diseases, and then we use organic fertilizers
and things that are micobally enriched like that brown patch

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with sixty three different good microbes in it. That's how
you go about in an organic system fighting the brown patch.
I don't know that may have sounded more late, more extensive,
but it's just the whole mindset that's important.

Speaker 8 (02:02:58):
Okay, No, I appreciate that.

Speaker 15 (02:03:00):
The other question I have is it's time for a
pre emergent as well. Obviously there is no organic pre emergent.
I'm going to have to use a synthetic. But I'm
wondering what kind of synthetic would you use with organic gardenings?

Speaker 6 (02:03:16):
Well with if you look at my yeah, if you
look at my schedule, we've got corn gluten meal on
there as and I make a note that it's not
totally effective. It can be, and I wouldn't say it
would be very helpful for you in the fall because
it's it's better against crabgrass, which is one of the

(02:03:39):
things we go after in the springtime with our late
winter pre emergent. So you could make a case for
it in the spring, but it's going to be erect
it's not going to control everything in the fall. If
you went with a synthetic like a barricade for example.
Then you're putting it down, your water it in and

(02:04:00):
it's going into the surface and it's fighting the weeds
at that point there. But again from an organic standpoint,
to go back to that whole cultural thing, the denser
and denser and denser you get your lawn, the healthier
your lawn is. If the sunlight can't get to the soil,
a little weed seed sprouting doesn't have a chance. It
needs sunlight, and so that culturally, from an organic standpoint,

(02:04:24):
rather than going, well, how do I kill weeds chemically,
well you go how do I grow a better lawn,
dense lawn and avoid the weed seeds the weaed seeds,
not perennial weeds, but the weed seeds that way? Okay,
does that help?

Speaker 15 (02:04:37):
That makes sense?

Speaker 11 (02:04:38):
No?

Speaker 6 (02:04:38):
I appreciate it, all right, thank you, all right, thank
you very much. Appreciate appreciate you call very much. We're
going to go. Oh, I got to take a quick
break here. When we come back, let's see Jill. You
will be our first up. Hey, here we go. So
we got a full border folks that we're going to
jump right in. We're gonna start off with Jill in

(02:04:58):
southeast Houston. Hey Jill, Welcome to guard Line. Hello, hey Jill,
you're on guard Line. Welcome.

Speaker 5 (02:05:08):
Yes, I have a question about a rose bush. It's
a knockout rose bush, and it's gotten very tall and lanky,
and I was wondering how much I could safely prune
it back. I mean, can I cut all the green
leaves off? Or do I need to leave some of
the green leaves?

Speaker 10 (02:05:25):
You can?

Speaker 5 (02:05:27):
Okay, I can.

Speaker 6 (02:05:28):
My roses are pruned back, you know. The hybrid tes
are prune without a stem on them. There's a bunch
of stick sticking up at the end of winter. But
I wouldn't do that heavy pruning on the knockout now.
I would wait and do it in February. Early February
it'd be a good time to do that, and early
to mid you can do mid. See where you look
at it. You were in South Yeah, I would probably

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do Yeah. Probably early February be a fine time and
cut it back as far as you need to, and
then as it begins to grow, if you're trying to
keep it from being so big, after it grows afoot
or so of shoots, you can share it a little
bit back again and cause them to branch out. It'll
make a denser floor bush that will be a little
more kept in bounds, okay, in terms of the ultimate

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size okay.

Speaker 5 (02:06:15):
And I think they like a lot of sun.

Speaker 6 (02:06:18):
Right, Oh, yes, the more of the merrier, okay, because.

Speaker 5 (02:06:23):
I think that's a problem too. I've got a tree
that's getting getting bigger and big. It's providing a lot
of shade too, So I'm thinking that's why it's trying
to grow up so much, because it wants it's looking
for sun.

Speaker 6 (02:06:38):
But okay, well rather than moving it or cutting down
a tree or limb.

Speaker 5 (02:06:45):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know.

Speaker 11 (02:06:47):
All right.

Speaker 6 (02:06:49):
Hey you thank you, ma'am. You bet you take care? Hey.

Speaker 10 (02:06:53):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (02:06:53):
In Jenny Gardens out in Richmond Rosenberg, they got the
Pumpkin House up. Have you ever seen the Pumpkin House?
It is cool. It is this and the whole wall
is just solid pumpkins on the outside, and they have
pumpkins of every size and shape, including the gourds and
all the unusual things. There's always something going on there
at the Enchanted Gardens in Richmond. It's a fun place

(02:07:15):
to go. You'll enjoy it when you go, and you
need to take friends with you too. When you go,
it's for your fall color. They got you covered. If
you want containers, they got you covered. If you love Uh,
maybe you're looking for a gift the gift shop, even
for yourself. I'm just saying, uh, you need to check
that out. It is a wonderful place, absolutely wonderful place.

(02:07:35):
This next Saturday, they're doing a fall fair, excuse me,
a fun fall fairy gardening make and take. What does
that mean? It means you get a container and you
make a little fairy garden. It's like a miniature scene,
a miniature landscape.

Speaker 19 (02:07:49):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (02:07:49):
And you gotta call them, you gotta sign up and
all that and make sure you got room and everything
for it. Find out what it costs, all those kinds
of things. But that would be a fun thing to
take hid your grandkids and do Saturday, October the eleventh
down in Enchanted Gardens down southeast. So check them out.
Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. That's the website, that's where

(02:08:12):
you find the phone number and where they're located and
all that kind of stuff. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com.
We're going to go now to Stanley and Eagle Lake. Hey, Stanley,
Welcome to garden line.

Speaker 17 (02:08:23):
Good morning, Skip, I have a okra question for you.
First real time growing okra. It did well till about
two weeks ago. Every leaf and limb is fallen off.
There's a little bit of regrowth from the bottom where

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it had initially branched off. It's starting, it's kind of
coming back. But it happened within two weeks. Every probably
forty something plants just boom.

Speaker 6 (02:08:56):
So I'm here, Well, we can't think of anything that happened.
You know, you can't say, well, I fertilized it, or
I watered it, or I didn't.

Speaker 17 (02:09:06):
Okay, go ahead, No, I did triple thirteen one time
when they were young, and that was it. And I
know people say, don't water it much, but you know
you can't help, but do water some.

Speaker 6 (02:09:19):
And it's a yeah, you do what. Ochre doesn't want
to be dry. It wants to have moderately moist soil.
So you don't make it a swamp, don't make it soggy,
but do you water them as needed to keep them moist.
Okra tends if you've had it all through the season,
it tends to kind of play out toward the end.

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And in okra farms, in the South, they'll often do
a thing where they cut the stems off down about
knee high or so, and the plants will sprout out
new shoots and growth that will have multiple trunks, and
then they get a later harvest on that fresh new
growth that's coming out. So I think what you're just
seeing is kind of the end. You know, as it

(02:10:04):
winds down in the season, it will continue to produce
some for you, but I would give it maybe just
a little little bit of fertilizer if you haven't fertilized
in a while. Make sure it's getting adequate water. And
the only other thing is Nemo Toad's love ochre. So
when you pull these up, check the roots and see
if they look like a string of pearls or like
the Michelin man, you know, a lumpy and everything that's

(02:10:27):
just on rinatod. That's a whole other conversation if we
get to that point, right, Okay.

Speaker 17 (02:10:32):
Well we'll past that at the end, so greatly appreciate that.

Speaker 10 (02:10:36):
All right, all right, thank.

Speaker 6 (02:10:38):
You, thanks for the call. You bet you take care, Stanley.
Good to talk to you. The folks at night foss
have that three step that I keep telling you about
it's the fall special winter Riser eight twelve sixteen fertilizer
designed to help grass go into fall strong, be winter hearty,
and come out strong in the spring. It's the night

(02:11:00):
phosp barricade. That's step two. That is the one you
put down watered in so that when fall weeds sprout,
it doesn't allow them to become plants. It catches them
between germinating and establishing plants, and it shuts them down
right there. That is important to do it ahead of
time before the weeds sprout. Nitrophoss egle tur fungicide. Step three.

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That is the one that gets up in the root
system in the plant, so that when bron patch does attack,
it's ready to go to defend the plant. It's like
an antibiotic in your blood bloodstream. Okay, it's fighting diseases.
It might attack your body. That's how this works. But
those are important to get done ahead of time. I
would do them right now. If we were to have

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a few days from now, some coldfront come in and
then some rainy weather, you're going to see cool season
weeds germinating, and you're going to see brown patch starting
to appear. And that's why we got to get these
down so they can go through the process. We water
them in. I do all three all three steps fertilz
week prevention and disease prevention. I do them all together,

(02:12:04):
put them down one at a time, and then water
them all in with about a half inch of water
and you should be good to go. Now you're gonna
find products like this from nitcrofoss at D and D Feed.
You're gonna find it Mount Bellevue of the Fisher's Hardware. There,
Lake Hardware and Angleton is another place that you can
find these. Court Hardware and Stafford in Chedded Forest in Richmond, Rosenberg,

(02:12:24):
Langham Creek, Ace and plants and things out in Brenham.
We're gonna go now to June and Sugarland. Hey June,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 22 (02:12:35):
Hi Hi, I am a repeated question. You were talking
about the brown strip of grass, and I forgot what
I'm supposed to put down to correct that in my yard.

Speaker 6 (02:12:49):
M tell me what it looks like other than a
brown strip. Is it like just like a sidewalk going
across the yard that's brown that shape and length, Yes,
it is.

Speaker 22 (02:13:01):
It's a strip, just a certain strip that's going right
down the side of my backyard and the rest of
the order is fine, but not that strip. And I
have a landscape guy, but he's not consoling it, so
I don't know what's.

Speaker 6 (02:13:19):
What you use, June. Are you able to take a
picture with your phone and email it to me or
is that not doable?

Speaker 22 (02:13:29):
I will, I will, Okay, I'm going to I'm going
to put.

Speaker 10 (02:13:34):
You on.

Speaker 6 (02:13:36):
Oh no, no, rush, no rush, send it whenever you do,
but take a picture from a distance, maybe a couple
of angles. I want to see this strip. And then
I want you to get pretty close where you take
a picture standing up, you take a picture of your feet,
and if you can get down right almost the grass
level and take a picture, Mike, sure it's in sharp focus,
and send me those Let me take a look at us.

(02:13:57):
So I don't send you off wasting your time and
money on product. It won't work, all right, Okay, thank you, Jim.
I'm putting you on hold. Don't go away. My producer's
going to pick up you. Bet. Alrighty, let's see here.
Not quite enough time to get to you, David and Spring.
You will be first when we come back with your question.

(02:14:18):
I just want to remind everybody that I'm going to
be there. We go again. I'm telling you again because
you need to know this. I'm going to be at
where Nature's Way Resources next Saturday, right the eleventh. I'll
be the Shindig, the Fall Festival. I keep calling it
the Shindig. I like that, but anyway, this is a
third annual Fall Festival. It goes from eight am to

(02:14:38):
two pm. I'm going to be there from twelve to two,
but you can come early in the morning because here's
why they're going to have plant sales. They're going to
have over thirty five vendors. I think they're up to
around forty now. And it is at Nature's Way Resources,
which is Sherbrook Circle in Conrod, Texas. Go to the
website and you'll find out everything you need to know

(02:14:58):
Nature's Way re Sources dot Com. It's gonna be fun
stuff for the kids, activities and live music. You don't
want to miss it. Next Saturday. We'll be right back.
All right, folks are back. Welcome back to guard Line.
Good to have you with us this morning. I want

(02:15:18):
to mention that anything you're looking for, whether fertilizers or
pest controller, we control. We talk about that all the
time about Southwest fertilizer. If they don't have it, you
don't need it, that kind of thing, And that's true,
it's absolutely true. But they have a really they have
some other things that I don't talk about as much.
One of them is a ninety foot long wall of tools.

(02:15:40):
That's not the only tools I have, either, but ninety
foot long wall of tools, and it's quality brands, things
like Folco and Corona that are gonna last. That garden
kneeling seat that I keep saying, if you're north of forty,
you got to have one of these. If you're south
of forty, you probably want one of these too. But
you can turn it one way and sit on it.
You turn it the other way and kneel on it,

(02:16:00):
and the legs become help you get back up agains,
and I'll just leave it at that. You know what
I'm talking about. They have the gadget of the grabber tool,
the kind that you need to build my weed wiper.
Bob's got it there, of course, he does, has everything there.
In the back. They've got a repair shop where they
do small engine repair, and so that's another thing you

(02:16:21):
need to know. They also have. If you're needing a
fertilizer spreader or a fire ant spreader, they have a
number of those available to quality brands that'll work. And
so just go there and check them out. Check out
Southwest Fertilizer. While are you in there, gave you some bread,
veggies and herbs take home with you. But main thing
is go see them corner of Bissinett and Renwick. Friendly service,

(02:16:44):
quality products and great selection. That's kind of the motto
I look at when I think about Southwest Fertilizer. Seven
one three six sixty six seven four four. We're going
to go now to David in Spring Branch. Hey, David,
thanks for waiting. How can we help?

Speaker 11 (02:16:59):
Thank you, thank you for taking my call. I had,
I questioned. I tell you some photos about a climbing
vine that just is stubborn. I can't get rid of it.
It's in the backyard, okay, three or four on there?

Speaker 6 (02:17:15):
Yes, And I can't zoom in very far. Yeah, I
can't zoom in very far with that getting pixelated. So
I can't tell you the exact name of the vine,
but I will tell you how to control it. Uh,
you need to get a product that has an ingredient
called triclope here t r I c l O p
y R that controls especially things that are difficult woody,

(02:17:41):
you know, poison ivy and vines and things like this,
and it works very well on now. Tra colpair will
can kill anything that's a broad leaf that's got big
leaves on it that you get it on, so you're
gonna be careful. And the photos it didn't look like
there was a lot of desirable stuff right there around
the vine. If you do spray, just spray it, you know,

(02:18:03):
in a coarse spray, not pumped up so much pressure
that you got foggy mist drifting off, because that could
land on something you like and you don't want that.
Tricli pair works well. Just get you don't have to
spray ever, leave on it. Just get as much as
as practical. It'll take it down into the base that

(02:18:25):
probably has an underground storage root on it, based on
the kind of vine it is, the features of it,
and it'll go in and it should kill it. If
it doesn't and you get re sprouting. When it starts
to re sprout, just let it settle in a little
bit and do it again. Fall is the best time
to do these kind of treatments because the plants are

(02:18:47):
taking in carbohydrates to replenish that storage root. So now'd
be a good time to get that done. It's tri
clo p y r okay. And if you go to
my website gardening with Skip dot com, there's something called
herbicides for skips weed wiper, and it's a page that
gives you the different kinds of weeds you have, from

(02:19:10):
nutgrass to woody weeds to grassy weeds and so on,
and it tells you the ingredients and the product name.
So that triclop here I mentioned, you can see all
the common names of products that contain triclop here on
that sheet, and if you want to carry that with
you to make shopping a little easier, I got thank.

Speaker 11 (02:19:27):
You, and I have one more question. A couple of
months ago, I was invaded by I guess chinch bugs.
I thought it was a takeof patch and I even
bought some I guess some fungus side for it. And
then maybe that's about two weeks after said it wasn't
doing anything, so I turned it something.

Speaker 6 (02:19:50):
David. I don't know if you can hear me, but
I lost you we lost your audio right when we
were about to find out what you turned to. I'm
going to put you on hold and hang on.

Speaker 11 (02:20:00):
Here we go.

Speaker 6 (02:20:01):
Do we have you back now I can hear you.

Speaker 10 (02:20:04):
Yes, okay.

Speaker 11 (02:20:06):
So the first thing I put on there was a
fungicide for the uh because I thought it was a
takeoff hatch. And then about two weeks after I noticed
it wasn't doing anything, and then I put something for
the chinchbugs on there. Is that that two week interval
that I waited? Is that too soon? Or is that
overkill on the grass? Did I put both chemicals on there?

Speaker 6 (02:20:29):
If you if you use an insecticide and a fungicide,
there's no gap that needs to be between them. If
you're going to use two funge of sides, I would
give it a few weeks before you do it again.

Speaker 11 (02:20:41):
I appreciate it. Thank you very much.

Speaker 6 (02:20:44):
That's kind of a principle in general. You bet, thank
you very much. Appreciate appreciate your call very much. We're
in Southern Gardens, Kingwood Garden Center out there in Kingwood.
I tell you about these all the time. It's very
fortunate for those of you in the Kingwood area. Kingwood
and poor and all around out in that part of
that neck of the woods down to Humble. These are

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your local hometown garden centers. And they've got expert folks
in there working. They know what they're talking about. And
when you go, you're going to find the things that
fit the season. So, for example, you go to warren
Southern Gardens right now our Kingwood Garden Center, You're going
to find all that fall color plants. You're gonna find
pumpkins and all the decorative items that people love to

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put out there in the fall season. You're going to
find the fall fertilizers. You know, you hear me talk
about micro Life brown Patch and you hear me talk
about Nelson carbo Load. They're both at Warrens and Kingwood
Garden Center. It's time to plant, right, so it's time
to build soil. So do you need a roase soil?
Do you need a veggie and herb mix? They carried
those actually made by Airlom Soil. So the quality products

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out there at Warrens and Kingwood Garden Center, and then
flowers and herbs and vegetables and everything else. Both of
these places open seven days a week. Warrens is on
Stone Hollow. Excuse me. Warrens is on North Park Drive
and Kingwood Garden Center is on stone Hollow Drive, So
take your pick. I like to go to both of them.
I do because they each have their own personality, a

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little bit different each one, and so it's a good
deal and you need to take advantage of it right now.
If you're going to be planning a vegetable garden, check
out their vegetables and their herbs and the seeds. They
also have seeds for planting those in your garden. And
remember I've already challenged you this or encouraged you this
year to grow something you never grew before. And if

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you never grew vegetables or herbs and containers, do that.
And this would be a good way to get a
good start out at Warren Southern Gardens, North Park Drive,
Kingwood Garden Center, Stone Hollow Drive. Again, both of them
open seven days a week, so they're open today. All right,
I'm gonna take a little break here and we will
be back with Greg in Channel View and Mark in

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clear Lake. Looks like we're going to ride out of
the garden line to dialect the horse with Gene Audrey
singing cowboy, Welcome back, good heavy back. Glad you're with
us today. Folks at Microlife, I was telling you about
the brown patch. It's the fertilizer for the season. You
put it down. Now it's got the nutrients in it.
And I know the name says brown patch, and the

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reason it says that is because it's chok fool of
sixty three different beneficial microbes. Beneficial microbes fight diseases or
they do a number of things. You know bt that
we spray for caterpillars, that's a beneficial microbe, Bacillus thor
in gentsis. It's a Bacillis out of the soil. Micro grow,
for example, has thirty three different basilicies in part as

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part of those sixty three good guys that they put
in it. And I'm not talking about insect fighting. I'm
talking about disease fighting basilicies. When you buy a bag
of Microlife brown patch, which is the brown bag, and
you put it on on your lawn, you're getting the
benefit of all that in addition to the fact that
you put your fall fertilization down. So that's the way

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you do it, and you need to do it. You
need to make sure, and get that done soon. Organic products,
you put them down, you water them, they get wet
and the microbes are able to go to work on
them and it takes you know, it's not just like
a synthetic where it's salt based, where instantly you know,
you put salt water, it dissolves and there you are. Now,
this is a process, so go ahead and get it

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done now. I would not delay anymore and get that
down so that you can get the most benefit as
possible from that application to your lawn. We're going to
go to Greg in a Channel View and hey, Greg,
welcome to garden.

Speaker 23 (02:24:30):
Line Born and Skip. I got a question about the
Chinese friend. I planted one with an ant about twenty
five years ago, and it's a lovely tree. But I
tried one in Stafford with a PI clay and it
just wasn't happy. I didn't have any success. Well, I've

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moved across the city and in Channel View we got
the same clay. Could I grow one in a container
or could I dig a bigger hole and put some
better soil before it gets to the clay.

Speaker 6 (02:25:05):
Oh yeah, I'm glad you Yeah, glad you asked that container.
Probably not They just want to get a little too big.
And if you had a huge container and you're very
you know, fastidious about watering it every day in the
summer and stuff, you might get something out of it.
But uh, yeah, when we plant in a clay soil,

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we never want to put organic matter in the hole
because that becomes an underground bathtub. So what that would
be like is putting compost in a bathtub and then
filling it full of water, and when that compost starts
to rot without oxygen down in that soggy condition, it
will stink up to high heaven. And you don't want
to do that. What you want to do, if you're

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going to mend it is bring in a good soil mix.
Maybe give it a little bit of a raised mound,
you know, just so that it has a sum good
soil there to grow in. And I don't mean a
three foot wide mound. I mean a bigger mound. And
you know, if you can go eight foot wide or
ten feet wide, that would be even better. But uh,
and then plant mix that soil good salt with your

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clay a little bit, and then dig a hole and
plant using the what you dug out of the hole,
which is the mixed clay and improved soul mix. Plant
in that. I think you'll do a little bit better
with it. Just you know, falls the best time to plant,
so now is when you would want to do it.
Make sure they're no leaves. Excuse me, make sure they're

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que circling.

Speaker 23 (02:26:34):
They're quite They're quite a lovely ornamental tree. I don't
know something about it. I just just appeals to me.
All right, skip, well, thank you very much. Really enjoy
the show. Really do you do a great job.

Speaker 6 (02:26:49):
Okay, thank you. Greg. Remember every time you plant a tree,
any roots that are going in a circle, cut them
before you put it in the ground and it'll it'll
help them do better. All right, the let's go to
Mark in clear Lake. Hey, Mark, welcome to garden Line.
Good morning, sir. I hope you're doing well in this
cooler morning. Oh can you beat it?

Speaker 12 (02:27:11):
No?

Speaker 6 (02:27:11):
I love it.

Speaker 10 (02:27:13):
Great.

Speaker 21 (02:27:15):
I sent you two pictures shunt and back of a
avocado leaf and it's penestrated. I have no idea what
that is, but I'm pretty certain that there's a high
chance you do.

Speaker 6 (02:27:28):
Yeah, it's a disease. In my gut feeling, I was
leaning toward it being a bacteria. It's possible that it's
a fungus, but it is a very unique By the way,
great pictures. Thank you. You did the two things that
I want all callers to do when they send me

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pictures attached them. Don't embed them in the text because
it's so much easier for me to look at while
I'm trying to do two things at once. But a
very good picture. But if you notice it the spot
or now the holes, it's where there, it's where the
area between veins is. So they're very boxy and angular

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because two veins, it's not like they're killing the veins,
they're killing that soft tissue in between, and that that
has somewhat of a look like a bacteria to it.
But I'm not certain about that. I've not seen this
on avocado before. I'm just looking at that symptom. You
know that I would have to research a little more.

(02:28:37):
I'll go to a place like Florida where the research
is done on avocados, or Hawaii and see what other
kinds of things are going on out there. But off
the top of my head, I think it may be
a bacteria, but I'm not convinced enough of that to
suggest that you go off and buy and apply a

(02:28:57):
copper type spray to try to control those. Well, let
me ask you this, when did you first notice this this.

Speaker 21 (02:29:04):
Morning when I went out there to examine it and
another one growing from seed and it's frozen back, yeah,
three years with so when it finally produces fruit, it
should produce a lot of it and help bring you
some like you want.

Speaker 6 (02:29:18):
Mhmm. I'm joking when I say that. Anyway, thank you,
I appreciate it.

Speaker 12 (02:29:23):
I know.

Speaker 21 (02:29:24):
Well I'll probably do is just meet up with you
one of your appearances and I have a couple of
them for you. But there, you know, that's old enough
without freezing. So if if it's not bacteria, if I
hit it with a bacteria side or whatever you call it,
that's not a problem to finished gray with coppers, painted.

Speaker 6 (02:29:41):
Copper and and let's say you're in clear like okay,
copper sulfate would be the a one of the coppers
that you could try.

Speaker 10 (02:29:51):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (02:29:51):
I'm telling you, I one thing I hate to do
is send people out, you know, just willing Nelly to
go spray this and see if it were you know,
I don't like that approach, and so I'd like to
know that. I'm I'm sending you in the right direction
before you go out and buy something spray. But anyway
that that is all that comes from I've looked through.

Speaker 21 (02:30:12):
Uh, go ahead, you said, go to Florida. Is there
a website in particular that you'd like to use.

Speaker 6 (02:30:21):
Well, the University of Florida Extension and Research is a
good one, and you can just do a search for that.

Speaker 12 (02:30:28):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (02:30:28):
It's the initials are usually I fast, you know, I
f a s. I'm trying to think about that. I
know Florida is part of it. But anyway, that would
be a place you could go. Look, you could try
Hawaii Extension do something on that. But I'm telling you,
in the past I've looked for diseases on avocados, just
look through them and stuff, and this is none of

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the ones I found and searching California, searching Florida, searching
uh research and extension places in Hawaii. I'm just not
this weird condition. The anglerness made me think bacteria. But
what's not right about bacteria is that there should be
a thin like almost a membrane film across what's now

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A hole shouldn't be a hole. It should be a
membrane film. But I don't know. Just keep looking. Let
let me ask you. I should ask you this first,
and you may have told me, is it all over
the tree kind of eatingly? Or is it just on
one branch?

Speaker 21 (02:31:27):
Or well, actually that was the only leave that I
saw it on. I didn't do a total search for
things like that, but it struck out at me because.

Speaker 6 (02:31:39):
Yeah, well good, that's good news. So I now am
backing off of the bacteria idea. Bacteria don't attack one
leaf on a plant. I was assuming this was more
widespread and so it's not bacteria. Nothing you need to spray.
I don't know what did it? Who knows. I don't
think it's going to be an ongoing problem. But if

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you see additional leaves happening, and especially if you get
to the next spring and you see weird stuff, give
me a call back. Let's talk about it, because we
will get to the bottom up one or another.

Speaker 21 (02:32:10):
Great, Thanks very much.

Speaker 6 (02:32:11):
All right, Mark, thank you, good back. All right, folks. Well,
what am I going to say now? I bet you
know I will say, come to the Fall Festival, the
Fall Garden Festival and Nature's Way Resources next Saturday. I'll
be there from twelfth to two. The event will be
going on starting at eight am. There's gonna be music,

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there's gonna be lemonade and bake treats and they say
authentic bites. Okay, that sounds good too, handmade jewelry and
art and home goods, oh my god. And I'll be
there answering your questions. It'll be a fun time for kids.
They got a lot of kids' activities planned